Manado, Indonesia

Manado, Indonesia is a submarine cable landing point in Indonesia (coordinates 1.4908°, 124.8396°). It serves 8 submarine cable systems, making it a significant node in Indonesia's international connectivity infrastructure.

Manado is the capital city of the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi. It is the second largest city in Sulawesi after Makassar, with the 2020 census giving a population of 451,916, and the official estimates for mid 2023 showing 458,582 inhabitants, distributed over a land area of 157.26 km2. The Manado metropolitan area had a population of 1,377,815 as of mid 2023. The city is situated on the Bay of Manado, and is surrounded by a mountainous area. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Manado, Indonesia

Cables landing at Manado, Indonesia are operated by 8 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Indonesian Government, Inligo Networks, Keppel T&T, Meta, Super Sistem (PT Super Sistem Data), Telin, Telkom Indonesia, Trans Indonesia Supercorridor. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Manado, Indonesia, international traffic can reach 8 countries through 8 cable systems. Destinations include Australia, Guam, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, Timor-Leste, United States. With multiple redundant paths, traffic at this landing point can reroute through alternative cables if any single system experiences an outage.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Manado, Indonesia in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Asia Connect Cable-1 (ACC-1) (2028) — Asia Connect Cable-1 (ACC-1) is an intercontinental submarine cable system connecting Oceania and Southeast Asia and North America, with 10 landing points across 7 countries including Alupang, Guam, Batam, Indonesia, Darwin, NT, Australia, Davao, Philippines and others. Read more →
• Barat Timur Indonesia-1 (BTI-1) (2028) — Barat Timur Indonesia-1 (BTI-1) is a domestic submarine cable network within Indonesia, connecting 6 coastal and island locations including Balikpapan, Gresik, Makassar, Manado, Nongsa, and 1 more. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →
• Trans Global Cable System (TGCS) (2026) — Trans Global Cable System (TGCS) is a domestic submarine cable network within Indonesia, connecting 7 coastal and island locations including Balikpapan, Batam, Ketapang, Makassar, Manado, and 2 more. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →
• Bifrost (2025) — BIFROST is the longest submarine cable we monitor. Nineteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight kilometres of fibre, stretched from Jakarta across the Indonesian archipelago, through Davao and Manado in the Philippines, via Tuas in Singapore, out to Alupang in Guam, and then across the full width of the Pacific Ocean to three North American landings — Grover Beach in California, Winema in Oreg Read more →
• Indonesia Global Gateway (IGG) System (2018) — Indonesia Global Gateway (IGG) System is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Indonesia and Singapore. Landing at Bali, Balikpapan, Batam, Dumai, Jakarta, and 5 more, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →
• Palapa Ring Middle (2018) — Palapa Ring Middle is a domestic submarine cable network within Indonesia, connecting 20 coastal and island locations including Bangga, Baubau, Buranga, Kendari, Lakudo, and 15 more. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →
• SMPCS Packet-1 (2015) — SMPCS Packet-1 is a domestic submarine cable network within Indonesia, connecting 12 coastal and island locations including Ambon, Bandaneria, Fakfak, Kendari, Labuha, and 7 more. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →
• Barat Timur Indonesia-2 (BTI-2) — Barat Timur Indonesia-2 (BTI-2) is a domestic submarine cable system within Indonesia, linking 10 landing points including Banjarmasin, Indonesia, Batam, Indonesia, Jeneponto, Indonesia, Kendari, Indonesia and others. It strengthens domestic network resilience in Indonesia by providing submarine connectivity between coastal and island communities. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.