Awas Kabel!
Live · Bali · 8.65°S 115.22°E

Every report pulls a cable tight.

A pin, a photo, a note. We work out whose cable it is from their own network maps and put your report straight into their crew's Telegram. You can watch it get fixed.

POLE 07-A POLE 07-B NUSA-0412 AK-7Q2F · FALLEN -8.65012, 115.21671 → 3 OWNERS PINGED
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How it works

Thirty seconds on your side. The rest is on theirs.

No account, no app, no hotline. A pin and a photo travel from your phone to the crew that owns the line.

Step 01/0401

Pin it

Your phone knows where you are. Stand next to the cable and the pin drops itself.

Step 02/0402

Snap it

One photo of the problem, one of the tag on the cable if you can see it. Add a line if it helps.

Step 03/0403

We find the owner

Providers upload their cable routes. We match your pin against them and send the report to whoever has a cable there.

Step 04/0404

Watch it get fixed

Their crew gets it in Telegram. When they fix it, you get the after photo. Not fixed? One tap reopens it.

Our story

It started with a penjor.

The week before Galungan, a family on a side road in Ubud went to raise their penjor and found a knot of cables hanging exactly where the bamboo had to arch. Some were live, most were dead. They called three internet providers. Each one said the same thing: not ours.

The penjor went up crooked. Down in Canggu that same week, a fiber cable lay across Jalan Batu Bolong for four days. Hundreds of scooters rode around it. Everyone saw it. Nobody told the owner, because nobody knew who the owner was.

Here is the part that surprised us: the owner would have fixed it in an hour. Crews are out every day. What they lack is not will, it is a message that says here, this one, it is yours.

The people who see the cable and the people who own it never meet. Awas Kabel is where they do.

So we built the meeting point. Anyone can drop a pin and a photo. Providers share their cable routes privately, so we can work out whose line it is and put the report straight into their field crew's Telegram. When it is fixed, the person who reported it sees the after photo.

No blame, no forms, no hotline music. Just the shortest path from awas, kabel! to a tidy street.

The families and streets in this story are illustrative. The problem is not.

Why now

Bali is already cleaning up. It needs eyes.

Twice a monthBadung now runs cable enforcement sweeps, with fines up to Rp 50 juta for providers who leave cables overhead where ducts exist. detikBali
New rulesTabanan passed a regional regulation on integrated utility networks (SJUT) in September 2026, and Denpasar aims to tidy its city centre by the end of 2026. Media Pelangi · Bali Post
No public channelEnforcement happens from the top down. There is still no simple way for the people who ride under these cables every day to say: this one, here, today.
What you can report

If it hangs, sags, leans or tangles, report it.

Eight categories cover almost everything on Bali's poles. Not sure? Pick "other" and let the photo talk.

C-01

Cable on the road

Lying on the road, the pavement or across a gang.

C-02

Hanging too low

Low enough to catch a helmet, a truck or a surfboard on a roof rack.

C-03

Pole leaning or broken

Leaning, cracked, rotten or hit by a vehicle.

C-04

Messy, tangled cables

The famous bird nests. Owners can bundle and remove dead drops.

C-05

Abandoned coil or dead cable

Leftover coils and cables that no longer carry anything.

C-06

Open or damaged box

Open, broken or hanging distribution boxes.

C-07

In the way of a penjor or ceremony

Cables in the way of a penjor, an ogoh-ogoh or a procession.

C-08

Something else

Anything cable-related that looks wrong.

Sparks, fire or a fallen power line? Keep your distance and call PLN on 123 or emergency services on 112 first.

Already in Telegram? Report from there.

Send the bot your location and a photo, tap what is wrong, done. Updates come back to the same chat.

@AwasKabel_bot
Location, photo, one tap. Works in Bahasa Indonesia and English.
Open
For providers

Hear it from a neighbour before you hear it from the cutting crew.

Straight into your crew chat

Photo, map pin, three buttons: Ours, Not ours, Fixed. No new app for your technicians.

Your maps stay yours

Cable routes are used only to route reports. Never shown to the public, never shown to other providers.

KML, KMZ, GeoJSON, GPX

Export from QGIS or Google Earth and upload. Ten minutes to join.

A scoreboard that rewards speed

Answer fast, even with "not ours", and your numbers stay clean. Fix fast and the public sees it.

Join as a cable owner

ISPs, telcos, cable TV, anyone with lines on Bali's poles. We will set up your account and help with your first map.

Already on board? Provider login

FAQ

Questions

Do I need an account?

No. Reporting is anonymous unless you choose to leave a name or number. Keep the report code to follow it, or follow it on Telegram.

Who sees my photos?

Photos appear on the public report page. They are re-encoded on upload, which strips GPS and camera data, and maintainers can hide any photo that shows faces or number plates.

How do you know whose cable it is?

Providers upload their cable routes privately. Your pin is compared with those routes and every provider with a cable within a few dozen metres gets the report. The one that owns it confirms; the others answer "not ours". If nobody matches, a maintainer finds the owner by hand.

Is this a government service?

No. It is an independent community tool that works alongside the regencies' own clean-up programmes. Regency staff can get read-only access to see where problems cluster.

Is it only for internet cables?

It is for anything strung on poles: fiber, copper, cable TV. Power lines belong to PLN; for anything sparking or live, call PLN 123 first.

What does it cost?

Reporting is free, always.