Palembang, Indonesia

Palembang, Indonesia is a submarine cable landing point in Indonesia (coordinates -2.9910°, 104.7573°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Indonesia's international connectivity infrastructure.

Palembang is the capital city of the Indonesian province of South Sumatra. The city proper covers 352.51 square kilometres on both banks of the Musi River in the eastern lowlands of southern Sumatra. It had a population of 1,668,848 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2024 was 1,801,367. Palembang is the second most populous city in Sumatra, after Medan, and the twelfth most populous city in Indonesia. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Palembang, Indonesia, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Indonesia. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Palembang, 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

• Sumatera Bangka Cable System (SBCS) (2014) — Sumatera Bangka Cable System (SBCS) is a submarine cable system operating within Indonesia, with landing points at Muntok, Palembang. It provides dedicated submarine fiber capacity between these locations, supporting telecommunications, internet access, and enterprise connectivity. Read more →

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