Radio Indah Siar Cirebon

Radio Indah Siar Cirebon sits in the tail of Indonesia's 212 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

Arabic from Indonesia, one of only one such entry the directory holds for the country. The national listing leads with Indonesian, which is what makes this worth pointing at.

Where else Arabic is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. The shelf lists all 199 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

Among 212 stations in Indonesia here, this is the only one that puts dakwah first. The dakwah rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

At 32 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Indonesia's dial, whose median is 96 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The stream is served from az2.radioislam.my.id:8150, which no other entry in Indonesia uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.