I agree with you that if you look at the statistics from wikipedia, the numbers are really disappointing. And in fact, Indonesians prefer watching EPL than Liga 1. Liga 1 in Indonesia has many problems such as corruption cases, match fixing, or referee injustice which are still problems. Simply, the management in Liga 1 is still very bad so that makes Indonesians dislike watching their own league. Indonesians don't know much about League 1. But they really like discussing football especially EPL. I think if we could find data on how many viewers watch Liga 1 and national team matches during the World Cup qualifiers, maybe you could see a very significant difference. Sorry, unfortunately I haven't been able to find it. But I think people from Indonesia can confirm the facts that I have said.
Indonesia is not economical strong country with political instability is also problem for them in last many decades which hurting them badly we can't expect good number of fans in stadium or as viewers even they are in or out of the World Cup but still currently they are in top 5 Asian countries for the soccer love, and they need to work on their development which can bring better results in the future.Currently, they are doing good job and have good chance of going into Fourth Stage, but we have to wait for the result of remaining matches which will played in coming months as we have read in above posts soccer in Asia is never been priority for any country even they are having the best available sources, but recent work from few countries are good and can give them good hope for better results in the future.
