A satellite outage shuts down 1000s of ATMs in Indonesia 🇮🇩

Thousands of ATMs 💸 and electronic card payment machines in Indonesia 🇮🇩 went offline over the weekend, and it might take two more weeks before full service is restored, after an outage from a satellite belonging to state-controlled telecom giant PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom).

Around 15,000 ground sites across Indonesia 🇮🇩 were affected by the problem on the ’Telkom-1’ satellite 🛰, whose service is used by government agencies, banks 🏦, broadcasters 📺 and other corporations, Telkom’s president director Alex Sinaga told reporters 📰 on Monday.

A shift in the direction of the satellite’s 🛰 antenna, which was first detected last Friday, had disrupted connectivity‼️

Bank Central Asia (BCA), Indonesia’s largest bank 🏦 by market value, had around 5,700 of its ATMs affected by the outage, or 30 percent of the total operated by the bank, BCA chief executive Jahja Setiaatmadja told reporters. The Internet connection 💻 in some remote BCA branches were also affected, he said.

UCJ, UNILORIN.