The company expects to shell out an extra 12 billion rupiah (U.S.$1.28 million) as Indonesians shun their beds to catch the live broadcasts from Germany -- using more subsidised power, Media Indonesia reported.

"There has been a jump of almost 1.2 million kilowatt hours every day during this football season. Televisions and lights are on until the morning," PLN acting president Juanda Nugraha Ibrahim complained.

With capacity already overstretched by massive growth in domestic consumption, PLN has had to generate the extra energy being drained from its system using costly fuel, Ibrahim told the daily.

"The result is that each evening, (it costs) 400 million rupiah and for the month, it will be around 12 billion rupiah," he said.

A six-hour time difference between Germany and Indonesia means that matches are broadcast late in the evening and into the early hours of the morning here.

Although not represented in the World Cup, Indonesians are huge football fans.