{"id":96365,"date":"2026-10-29T18:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96365"},"modified":"2026-10-29T18:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:17:02","slug":"cut-indonesias-internet-cables-singapore-could-get-hit-too-minister-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96365","title":{"rendered":"**Cut Indonesia\u2019s Internet Cables? Singapore Could Get Hit Too, Minister Warns*&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec **Cut Indonesia\u2019s Internet Cables? Singapore Could Get Hit Too, Minister Warns**<\/p>\n<p>An Indonesian minister has issued a warning after a former Singapore MP posted an infographic claiming that around 90% of Indonesia\u2019s international internet traffic passes through Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-MP, Calvin Cheng, simply added one word to his post: \u201cCut?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Indonesia\u2019s Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid pointed out that many submarine cables connecting Singapore to the world pass through Indonesian waters too.<\/p>\n<p>She claimed that disrupting these cables could put up to 80% of Singapore\u2019s internet connectivity capacity at risk.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it\u2019s not just Indonesia that could suffer if these digital lifelines were disrupted. Singapore could feel the impact as well.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng later clarified that Singapore would not cut the connections, describing Singaporeans as civilised and law-abiding.<\/p>\n<p>No cables have been reported cut, and the figures cited have not been independently verified.<\/p>\n<p>Full story in the comments \ud83d\udc47<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/865480390_1808359977020878_1651920228108466504_n.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/865480390_1808359977020878_1651920228108466504_n.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100064694979509\/posts\/1558991719600646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec **Cut Indonesia\u2019s Internet Cables? Singapore Could Get Hit Too, Minister Warns** An Indonesian minister has issued a warning after a former Singapore MP posted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}