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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - The daily monitoring report from the Indonesian Environment and Forestry Ministry contains satellite and ground-based evidence showing that from January to mid-June 2021, in the second year of the ongoing pandemic, the number of hotspots representing potential forest and land fire spots has decreased substantially compared to the same period last year.
The satellite-based evidence referred to in the ministry report is derived from Terra/Aqua (LAPAN) data in hotspots with a confidence level equal to or more than 80%, indicating that from January 1 - June 15, 2021, 268 hotspots were detected, a fall of 64.03% from the corresponding period last year when there were 745 hotspots.
The report in question detailing the plunge in the number of hotspots covers the period until 18:00 June 15, 2021, Western Indonesia time.
The following chart depicts the sharp level of decline - by 64.03% - in the number of hotspots from the first of January to mid-June 2021 compared to the same period last year.
Ground checks in response to the satellite data, as well as efforts to extinguish fires and patrol operations, also form part of the ministry report. These were carried out in a number of provinces, most notably North Sumatra, Riau, South Sumatra, Riau Islands, West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan.
The photos below, taken from the report, show the ministry and military’s actions in conducting ground checks on the satellite data as well as their efforts to put out fires in Sumatra’s Riau province.
In addition, TMC (weather modification technology) continued to be utilized to form rain-inducing cloud seeding in key provinces which are prone to forest and land fires.
The following two photos, also from the ministry report, demonstrate examples of the TMC operations undertaken as a joint effort between the ministry, BPPT, TNI AU, BNPB, BMKG and the private sector - in this case Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) - in Sumatra’s Jambi and South Sumatra provinces.
Clear evidence
Last year, Indonesia achieved huge success in vastly reducing the level of forest and land fires compared to 2019, to the extent that Indonesia was listed as a country free of haze-causing fires in the first year of the global pandemic.
President Joko Widodo delivered clear evidence of this at the Leaders Summit on Climate hosted by US President Joe Biden to coincide with this year's International Earth Day, asserting that "Indonesia has had an 82% decline in forest fires while several areas in America, Australia and Europe have endured large increases.”
Indonesia's success in eliminating haze-causing fires proves that action and evidence speak louder than words, in this case predictions, as reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS in mid-October 2020 and early January 2021.
There were many predictions of a double-disaster in Indonesia in 2020, whereby the widespread COVID-19 outbreak would be exacerbated by haze-causing fires. These predictions, however, did not come true.
Clear target
The country's Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya, as reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (May 17), has previously pointed out that the dry season in several key provinces has not yet reached its peak, so all efforts and resources will continue to be fully mobilized to ensure that in the second year of the pandemic, there will once again be no haze-causing fires.
Minister Nurbaya recently set forth a clear target in this regard, affirming “We aim to make sure that we are free of haze-causing fires until at least the end of the year, just like we managed to do last year.”
If the excellent performance from the first two months of the year - as reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Mar 17) - which has continued into mid-June, can be maintained, it is quite likely that Indonesia will avoid haze-causing fires for the second consecutive year, a hugely impressive achievement.
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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - The daily monitoring report from the Indonesian Environment and Forestry Ministry contains satellite and ground-based evidence showing that from January to mid-June 2021, in the second year of the ongoing pandemic, the number of hotspots representing potential forest and land fire spots has decreased substantially compared to the same period last year.
The satellite-based evidence referred to in the ministry report is derived from Terra/Aqua (LAPAN) data in hotspots with a confidence level equal to or more than 80%, indicating that from January 1 - June 15, 2021, 268 hotspots were detected, a fall of 64.03% from the corresponding period last year when there were 745 hotspots.
The report in question detailing the plunge in the number of hotspots covers the period until 18:00 June 15, 2021, Western Indonesia time.
The following chart depicts the sharp level of decline - by 64.03% - in the number of hotspots from the first of January to mid-June 2021 compared to the same period last year.
Ground checks in response to the satellite data, as well as efforts to extinguish fires and patrol operations, also form part of the ministry report. These were carried out in a number of provinces, most notably North Sumatra, Riau, South Sumatra, Riau Islands, West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan.
The photos below, taken from the report, show the ministry and military’s actions in conducting ground checks on the satellite data as well as their efforts to put out fires in Sumatra’s Riau province.
In addition, TMC (weather modification technology) continued to be utilized to form rain-inducing cloud seeding in key provinces which are prone to forest and land fires.
The following two photos, also from the ministry report, demonstrate examples of the TMC operations undertaken as a joint effort between the ministry, BPPT, TNI AU, BNPB, BMKG and the private sector - in this case Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) - in Sumatra’s Jambi and South Sumatra provinces.
Clear evidence
Last year, Indonesia achieved huge success in vastly reducing the level of forest and land fires compared to 2019, to the extent that Indonesia was listed as a country free of haze-causing fires in the first year of the global pandemic.
President Joko Widodo delivered clear evidence of this at the Leaders Summit on Climate hosted by US President Joe Biden to coincide with this year's International Earth Day, asserting that "Indonesia has had an 82% decline in forest fires while several areas in America, Australia and Europe have endured large increases.”
Indonesia's success in eliminating haze-causing fires proves that action and evidence speak louder than words, in this case predictions, as reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS in mid-October 2020 and early January 2021.
There were many predictions of a double-disaster in Indonesia in 2020, whereby the widespread COVID-19 outbreak would be exacerbated by haze-causing fires. These predictions, however, did not come true.
Clear target
The country's Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya, as reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (May 17), has previously pointed out that the dry season in several key provinces has not yet reached its peak, so all efforts and resources will continue to be fully mobilized to ensure that in the second year of the pandemic, there will once again be no haze-causing fires.
Minister Nurbaya recently set forth a clear target in this regard, affirming “We aim to make sure that we are free of haze-causing fires until at least the end of the year, just like we managed to do last year.”
If the excellent performance from the first two months of the year - as reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Mar 17) - which has continued into mid-June, can be maintained, it is quite likely that Indonesia will avoid haze-causing fires for the second consecutive year, a hugely impressive achievement.
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