Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Romance novels Audience in Indonesia

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Romance novels in Indonesia — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Romance novels has an estimated audience of 5,304,718 people in Indonesia.

#3among Literary genre in Indonesia
#211among Topic in Indonesia
#10in Literature

The average Romance novels fan in Indonesia is 36.7 years old, balanced, and lives primarily in West Java.

The audience is concentrated in West Java, East Java, Central Java.

Category: Literature · Type: Topic · Subtype: Literary genre

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-18.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Romance novels profile in Indonesia.

Audience size
5.3M
in Indonesia
Gender
51.0%
49.0% male
Age
36.7
average years
Country rank
#285
Topic in Indonesia
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+51%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Romance novels fans

51.0% are female, 49.0% are male, average age 36.7.

Fig. 02

Gender split

51.0%
Female
49.0%
Male
Demographic split for Romance novels audience in Indonesia
MetricValue
Female51.0%
Male49.0%
Average age36.7
Estimated audience size5,304,718
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 36.7
average years
Age distribution of the Romance novels audience in Indonesia
Age bracketShare%
16-1918%
20-2927%
30-3925%
40-4919%
50+10%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

3.2%

of the worldwide Romance novels audience comes from Indonesia.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Romance novels
CountryShare
United States17.6%
China4.9%
India4.5%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the Indonesia average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Romance novels audience in Indonesia is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Romance novels fans by region: top regions in Indonesia
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Central Java~700K1.33×
02East Java~700K1.28×
03West Java~1M1.15×
04Jakarta~500K1.07×
05Banten~200K1.06×
06Special Region of Yogyakarta~90K1.06×
07West Sulawesi~20K1.06×
08Gorontalo (disambiguation)(2)~20K1.05×
09North Kalimantan~20K1.05×
10Jambi~60K1.04×
11West Papua~20K1.04×
12South Kalimantan~70K1.03×
13Bangka-Belitung Islands~30K1.01×
14North Maluku~20K1.01×
15North Sumatra~300K1.00×
16Papua (province)~30K1.00×
17Maluku~20K1.00×
18Riau Islands~60K0.99×
19Bengkulu~40K0.99×
20West Sumatra~90K0.98×
21East Kalimantan~80K0.98×
22Central Kalimantan~40K0.97×
23Southeast Sulawesi~40K0.97×
24Central Sulawesi~50K0.96×
25South Sulawesi~100K0.95×
26North Sulawesi~50K0.95×
27South Sumatra~100K0.94×
28West Kalimantan~70K0.94×
29West Nusa Tenggara~60K0.94×
30East Nusa Tenggara~50K0.94×
31Lampung~100K0.93×
32Riau~100K0.92×
33Aceh~70K0.92×
34Bali~90K0.88×
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Indonesia who actively search for Romance novels. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Indonesia. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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