It was already clear that Indonesia loves to tweet, but those short little messages are getting attention globally and saying a lot about what people in the social media crazed country are thinking.

Indonesia’s most recirculated tweet – a call to vote for Joko Widodo in the presidential election – was the second-most retweeted tweet in the world, second only to a star-filled selfie taken at the Academy Awards and sent out by host Ellen DeGeneres. Within the Asia-Pacific, five of the top 10 retweeted tweets for 2014 come from...