BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Contact lost with Indonesian jet

Quoted from BBC:

“Contact has been lost with a passenger plane flying between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sulawesi, aviation officials have said.”

The news from sinking ship at Java Sea was still fresh on local TV channel, now an airplane has gone missing.

It was rainy season right now in most of Indonesia. I think it would be normal if the weather was not good up there, but why there were not any warnings if the weather was bad from local weather post? Well.. disaster is disaster, what can be done right now is to find any survivors, not to blame anyone. ^^

Link: BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Contact lost with Indonesian jet

Indonesian Internet is dying!

Maybe you already know about the Taiwan earthquake that happened 26 December ago. My deepest condolences to the victims. It was happened after 2 years tsunami in Aceh. I hope there won’t be any disaster like Aceh’s tsunami. >_<

The aftereffects from the earthquake is as you can read from the title. Almost every international link from any ISPs in Indonesia are down with those undersea fiber optic cables. Right now maybe some ISPs are already using satellite link as backup. I’m lucky because my ISP is not affected by this earthquake. I wonder what connection does my ISP use? I think my ISP international connection are not going through Taiwan or they were using satellite? I dunno.. ^^

From what I read from local news website, every ISP in Indonesia are using fiber optic as primary backbone connection and satellite as backup. After Taiwan’s earthquake, the undersea fiber optics are down so every international connection are rerouted to satellite backup. It was very crowded up there I think. Clogged up like a stuffed pipe.

Well.. this disaster is totally unrelated to my Internet connection slowness. As you can see from some previous entry, I already been suffering with this f***ed up 3 KB/s since I got my Internet connection back online. If I complain to technical support tomorrow, I can guarantee they will tell this Taiwan’s earthquake as excuse. >_<

It was very troubling to depend on another nation backbone. I hope in the future we will have our own backbone. Good luck to every diver in South China Sea who trying to fix those fiber optics. ^^

Link:

• BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Asia communications hit by quake
• Slashdot | Quake in Taiwan Cripples Internet
• detikinet > Telkom: 80 Persen Kapasitas Internet Bermasalah (Indonesian)