Indonesia Data Center Fire: Some Sites Now Restored, Detik and Others Still Offline

[UPDATE 17:20: News portal Detik and national education website Jardiknas are now back online. Also, Kompas cites Henri K. Soemartono, the director of IDC Indonesia, as saying there is only one UPS burned out instead of previously reported eight. Henri says the UPS is worth around IDR 566 million ($60,000).]

There was a fire at the Indonesia Data Center Duren III (IDC 3D), in Kuningan area, last night. Because of this, several Indonesian sites could not be accessed for a while. Based on a tweet from Detik, the website is still inaccessible. There has been progress in the last few hours as news portal Okezone and KapanLagi are now back online. These are a few notable sites that either went offline for a while or remain down:

• News portals Okezone (now back on), Detik, and KapanLagi (now back on)
• National airline Garuda Indonesia (now back on)
• Humor site MalesBanget
• Forums Indowebster (now back on) and IndoGamers
• File hosting website Maknyos
• National education website Jardiknas

The fire reportedly was caused by a UPS blowout at the South Jakarta office. Part of the office’s second floor along with its eight UPS were all caught up in the fire. IDC representatives said through Politik-id that the fire did not damage the server network which is connected to Indonesia’s ISPs. Johar Alam Rangkuti, the co-founder of IDC, confirmed that latter detail in this tweet:

Jaringan aman. Audit PLN dan independent sudah. Salah satu dari 8 UPS kebakar. Shutdown diperlukan karena banyak asap RT @ylbsumaryo

— Johar Alam Rangkuti (@joharalam) August 12, 2012

The latest update from Johar is that the first floor of IDC 3D is all back online since 8am local time. They are gradually trying to turn on the data center at the moment. The second floor’s spring and winter servers sections are now back on (IDC names its server sections based on the seasons). The last tweet from IDC was at 12pm local time.

According to DailySocial, the fire may prove to be a huge blow to Detik as the site is fully hosted at IDC 3D. Furthermore, the news portal site doesn’t have any other local mirrors, so the site can’t be accessed from Indonesia at the moment. At the moment, though other websites such as Garuda Indonesia and Indowebster are back online.

During these hectic times, Twitter becomes the choice of several sites, using @Okezone and @Detikcom to feed news and content directly to its users. Indonesian gaming forum IndoGamers hopes that its website will be back online in the next couple of days.

[Source: Politik-id #1, #2, and DailySocial, picture: FunnyJunk]