Landing Point · ID Indonesia
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Palapa Ring East | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-05-13 through 2026-06-02 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 261.2 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 1 | 332.6 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 107.2 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 18.0 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 1 | 308.4 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 1 | 206.4 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 1 | 300.5 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 1 | 222.8 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 209.9 ms |
Agats is a town in Asmat Regency, South Papua, Indonesia, situated on a tidal plain along the southern coast of the island of New Guinea. As the administrative seat of Asmat Regency, it occupies a remote position in one of Indonesia's easternmost provinces. One submarine cable lands at Agats, connecting this coastal settlement to the broader domestic submarine cable infrastructure of Indonesia.
The single cable serving Agats is the Palapa Ring East, a domestic Indonesian cable system. Its presence here reflects the Indonesian government's strategy of extending submarine connectivity to outlying and underserved regions of the archipelago, including the far eastern province of South Papua. The Palapa Ring East links Agats to other landing points within Indonesia, enabling domestic inter-island communications along an eastern corridor of the archipelago.
The Palapa Ring East is a submarine cable system with a total length of 6,300 kilometres, reaching its ready-for-service status in 2019. The cable is entirely domestic in scope, connecting multiple landing points within Indonesia. For Agats, it represents the town's sole submarine cable connection, integrating this remote Papuan settlement into Indonesia's national submarine network. All other endpoints on the Palapa Ring East are also located within Indonesia, making this an intra-national cable corridor.
Within Indonesia's submarine cable landscape, Agats is a single-cable landing point in a country that hosts 70 submarine cables across 139 landing points. Major Indonesian hubs such as Batam (20 cables), Jakarta (9 cables), and Tanjung Pakis (9 cables) handle significantly higher cable volumes. With one cable, Agats ranks within the top 62 percent of Indonesian landing points by cable count, reflecting the general pattern across Indonesia's 139 landing points where many sites serve as terminus nodes for domestic connectivity programmes rather than international transit hubs.
Agats functions as a domestic terminus on the Palapa Ring East system, providing submarine cable connectivity to a region of Indonesia that would otherwise rely entirely on terrestrial or satellite links. Its role is that of a single-cable endpoint rather than a multi-cable hub, channelling intra-national traffic along the eastern ring of the Indonesian archipelago. The Palapa Ring East, at 6,300 kilometres, is a notably long domestic cable, and Agats represents one of its more geographically isolated landing points.
Within the wider Indonesian submarine cable graph, Agats illustrates the country's deliberate effort to bring submarine connectivity to remote administrative centres in Papua, extending the reach of the national network to settlements far from the high-density cable corridors concentrated in western and central Indonesia.
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