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Padang, W Sumatra (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian-based social networking site specially made for the Muslim community, CMnet, had become increasingly popular among Internet users since it was released on August 6.

CMnet that can be accessed at www.cybermoslem.net is the first social networking site for Muslims in Indonesia with the facebook and twitter system combined with edited-opensource system.

"CMnet has now 3,700 members not only from Indonesia but from other countries as well, including the US, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Egypt, Kuwait, and some European countries," founder of CMnet, Dolla Indra (25), said here on Sunday, adding that his site had been visited 5,894,954 times.

Apart from the positive interest, Dolla said, the site was also target of 5,000 hackers. In fact, CMnet had once been attacked by a hacker that made the site inaccessible for several hours. Therefore, Dolla admitted he recently had upgraded the CMnet system to avoid hackers and made it stronger and more stable.

Dolla hoped the government would support his effort to develop CMnet as a web-based application in Indonesia.