Website Availability in Indonesia
Submarine cables, ISP health and blocking risks that decide whether a website loads in Indonesia. Checked against live measurement data.
Wondering whether a website is down for everyone or just unreachable from Indonesia? The answer usually hides in the physical layer of the internet. Indonesia 🇮🇩 connects to the global network through 72 submarine cable systems that come ashore at 143 landing stations, and its national domain zone is .id. Every request from a user in Indonesia to a foreign server, and every request from abroad to a site hosted in Indonesia, physically travels over these systems or their terrestrial backhaul.
This page summarizes what our measurement network knows about internet connectivity in Indonesia: which cables serve the country, how its leading internet providers are performing, and what can make a website appear offline for users there while it works everywhere else.
Current connectivity status in Indonesia
As of our latest hourly measurement cycle, the national internet signal of Indonesia is operating normally (BGP visibility and active probing dip: 0% against the 24-hour baseline). National-level signals catch large events; an individual website can still be unreachable for local reasons, which is what the availability checker above is for.
Connectivity for most users in Indonesia is provided by a small group of networks:
| Provider | ASN | Share of users | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| TELKOMSEL-ASN-ID - PT. Telekomunikasi Selular | AS23693 | 23.1% | No recent anomaly |
| telkomnet-as-ap - PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia | AS7713 | 18.4% | No recent anomaly |
| INDOSAT-INP-AP - INDOSAT Internet Network Provider | AS4761 | 13.3% | No recent anomaly |
| NAPXLNET-AS-ID - PT XL Axiata | AS24203 | 6.1% | No recent anomaly |
| MYREPUBLIC-AS-ID - PT. Eka Mas Republik | AS63859 | 4.4% | No recent anomaly |
If a website fails to load only for customers of one of these providers, the problem is almost always local: DNS resolution inside that network, ISP-level filtering, or a routing issue, rather than the website itself being down.
Submarine cables that connect Indonesia to the internet
The following systems land in Indonesia. Cable length is a rough proxy for how much of the world a system reaches: long trunks connect continents, short ones link neighbors. Our monitors registered 7 latency anomalies on cables serving Indonesia in the last 30 days.
| Cable system | Length | In service since |
|---|---|---|
| SeaMeWe-5 | 20,000 km | 2016 |
| Bifrost | 19,888 km | 2025 |
| Asia Connect Cable-1 (ACC-1) | 19,000 km | 2028 |
| Echo | 17,184 km | 2025 |
| SEA-US | 14,500 km | 2017 |
| Apricot | 11,972 km | 2025 |
| Barat Timur Indonesia-2 (BTI-2) | 11,600 km | n/a |
| Hawaiki Nui 1 | 10,000 km | 2027 |
| Asia United Gateway East (AUG East) | 8,900 km | 2029 |
| Candle | 8,000 km | 2028 |
| Palapa Ring East | 6,300 km | 2019 |
| Indonesia Global Gateway (IGG) System | 5,300 km | 2018 |
Plus 60 more systems, mostly regional links. Live health data for every cable is available on the linked pages.
How resilient is Indonesia to cable failures?
With 72 cable systems across 143 landing stations, Indonesia has one of the most redundant internet connections in the world. Traffic can reroute across many independent systems, so a single cable fault rarely affects end users. Repairs at sea typically take one to several weeks, because a specialized cable ship has to locate the fault, lift the cable and splice it on deck.
Why a website may not load in Indonesia
When a site works in other countries but fails in Indonesia, the usual suspects are, in order of likelihood: a DNS problem inside a local ISP, a content delivery network misrouting users in Indonesia to an unhealthy edge node, a routing or peering issue between local networks and the site's host, and finally a submarine cable incident affecting the whole region.
Our DNS measurements have not flagged systematic national filtering in Indonesia, although individual ISPs and corporate networks can still block specific resources.
Neighbors on the same cables
These countries share submarine cable systems with Indonesia, so a major cable incident can affect them together:
🇸🇬 Singapore (23 shared) · 🇲🇾 Malaysia (9 shared) · 🇵🇭 Philippines (6 shared) · 🇦🇺 Australia (4 shared) · 🇺🇸 United States (4 shared) · 🇯🇵 Japan (3 shared)
See the full list on the website availability by country hub.
Frequently asked questions
How do I check if a website is down in Indonesia?
Enter the URL into the free Global Availability Checker on this site. It compares measurement data from 80+ countries, including probes relevant to Indonesia, and shows in seconds whether the site is down everywhere or only unreachable from specific regions.
How many submarine cables connect Indonesia?
Indonesia is served by 72 submarine cable systems landing at 143 coastal stations. The longest systems are SeaMeWe-5, Bifrost, Asia Connect Cable-1 (ACC-1).
Why does a website work in other countries but not in Indonesia?
The most common causes are DNS failures inside a local ISP, CDN edge problems, routing issues between Indonesia and the hosting network, national filtering, and submarine cable faults. Testing the URL from multiple countries immediately narrows down which one it is.
Who are the largest internet providers in Indonesia?
The leading networks by user share are TELKOMSEL-ASN-ID - PT. Telekomunikasi Selular, telkomnet-as-ap - PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, INDOSAT-INP-AP - INDOSAT Internet Network Provider. Together they carry the majority of consumer traffic, so a problem inside any of them affects a large share of users in Indonesia.
Can a single cable failure disconnect Indonesia?
No. With 72 independent cable systems, traffic reroutes automatically around a single fault.
Does Indonesia block websites?
We have not detected systematic national filtering in Indonesia, but individual ISPs and corporate networks can still block specific sites.
Data: GeoCables submarine cable telemetry, RIPE Atlas measurements, IODA national signals, APNIC user estimates. Numbers refresh automatically; last update July 11, 2026.