  We employ the gauge/gravity duality to study the jet quenching of light
probes traversing a static yet anisotropic strongly coupled $\mathcal{N}=4$
super Yang-Mills plasma. We compute the stopping distance of an image jet
induced by a massless source field, which is characterized by a massless
particle falling along the null geodesic in the WKB approximation, in an
anisotropic dual geometry introduced by Mateos and Trancancelli. At mid and
large anisotropic regimes, the stopping distances of a probe traveling in the
anisotropic plasma along various orientations are suppressed compared to those
in an isotropic plasma especially along the longitudinal direction at equal
temperature. However, when fixing the entropy density, the anisotropic values
of stopping distances near the transverse directions slightly surpass the
isotropic values. In general, the jet quenching of light probes is increased by
the anisotropic effect in a strongly coupled and equilibrium plasma.
