JAKABARE

Overview

JAKABARE is a regional submarine cable system connecting Indonesia and Singapore across the Strait of Malacca corridor. With a total length of 1,330 km, it serves the intra-Southeast Asian segment between the Indonesian archipelago and the Singaporean coast. The cable is owned and operated by Indosat Ooredoo, one of Indonesia's principal telecommunications carriers.

Route and Landings

In Indonesia, JAKABARE lands at three points: Sungai Kakap, Tanjung Bemban, and Tanjung Pakis. These landings span different parts of the Indonesian coastline, distributing connectivity across multiple access points on the Indonesian side of the system.

In Singapore, the cable has a single landing point at Changi North, located on the eastern end of the island. Singapore's landing infrastructure is concentrated, with the country hosting 33 submarine cables across just eight landing points in total.

Ownership and Operators

JAKABARE is wholly owned by Indosat Ooredoo. Indosat Ooredoo is a major Indonesian telecommunications operator formed through the merger of Indosat and Ooredoo's Indonesian operations, providing mobile, fixed, and data services across Indonesia.

Status and Timeline

JAKABARE entered service in 2009 and has been operational for approximately 17 years. The cable continues to operate in service connecting its Indonesian and Singaporean landing points.

Regional Context

At 1,330 km, JAKABARE is shorter than most cables touching the same Indonesia–Singapore corridor, exceeding roughly 42% of the 52 other cables that land in these two countries. The corridor is also served by long-haul international systems such as EAC-C2C, the Asia-America Gateway (AAG) Cable System, APCN-2, and more recently PEACE Cable, SeaMeWe-6, and Bifrost. Those systems are intercontinental in scope, with lengths ranging from roughly 19,000 km to over 36,000 km. JAKABARE, by contrast, is a comparatively compact regional system focused on direct Indonesia–Singapore connectivity.

Performance measurements over the past 60 days, drawn from 124 ping tests, show an average round-trip latency of 50.4 ms, with a best recorded result of 14.3 ms.

Strategic Role

JAKABARE provides direct submarine cable capacity between Indonesia and Singapore, linking three Indonesian coastal landing points to Singapore's Changi North facility. The three Indonesian landings distribute connectivity to different parts of the Indonesian coast, while the Singapore terminus connects into one of Southeast Asia's most densely cabled hubs. As a single-owner system, JAKABARE offers Indosat Ooredoo dedicated infrastructure for routing traffic between the two countries without dependence on shared international consortiums.