Intensive efforts made to restore connections at the time.
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) has announced it will begin investigating the 5 April 2021 Jakabare submarine cable cut which was possibly caused by nearby construction works. Restoration work was promptly undertaken and completed on 6 April 2021.
IMDA stated it will take appropriate enforcement action against the relevant parties if they are found to have damaged telecommunications systems in contravention of the Telecommunications Act.
According to IMDA Singapore will continue to take the necessary preventive and swift remedial action should such incidents occur once investigations have concluded.
Jakabare is a fibre optic submarine telecommunications cable system which became ready for service around November 2009. The system has a length of 1330 kilometres and is owned and/or operated by PT Indonesia Satellite Corp, with landing points in Singapore and Indonesia.
The Jakabare SKKL network is project undertaken by Indosat with NEC Corporation as its partner. It has four landing points on each island, including: Tanjung Pakis (Krawang, West Java), Sungai Kakap (Pontianak, West Kalimantan), Tanjung Bemban (Batam) and Changi (Singapore).
Indonesian publication, First Media reported Steve Saerang as SVP-Head of Corporate Communications of Indosat, said “the operational team has made intensive efforts to restore the connection and it is planned that within 2×24 hours, SKKL Jakabare can be used again. He said cellular subscribers did not experience the impact of this recovery process”.
“Currently the operational team is still carrying out the recovery process. However, during the recovery process, our cellular customer service did not experience any impact at all,” noted Saerang.
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