Telin has broken ground on a cable landing station (CLS) outside Manado on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
The company, a subsidiary of Telkom Indonesia, this month announced work had started on the facility in Kalasey, Minahasa.
The landing station is set to be part of the Bifrost Cable System. Developed in partnership with Keppel, Amazon, and Meta, Bifrost will link Indonesia to the United States through the Java and Celebes seas.
First announced in 2021, the 16,000-kilometer-long Bifrost will have landing points in the US, Guam, Indonesia, and Singapore, as well as Mexico and the Philippines. Originally scheduled to be operational by Q2 2024, the system’s go-live date has since been pushed back to early 2025.
Budi Satria Dharma Purba, CEO of Telin, said: “Continuing our vision of building global digital infrastructure, the new CLS will support the Bifrost cable and future cable systems. The BMH and Fronthaul are designed to accommodate up to four cable systems, ensuring future scalability.”
Minahasa is also the landing point for the Indonesia Global Gateway (IGG), Palapa Ring Middle, and SMPCS Packet-1 cable systems. The upcoming Asia Connect Cable-1 (ACC-1) system is also set to land there in 2027.
Telin is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telkom Indonesia. Telkom and Telin operate data centers in both Batam and Singapore.
Telin broke ground on CLS for the Bifrost system in Jakarta over the summer.
Telin has also recently partnered with Singtel, BW Digital, and Indosat to develop three separate cables landing in Indonesia.
