Ministry of Environment and Forestry: Indonesia's Hotspot Count Reaches 240 in the Last 24 Hours (Friday, April 17, 2026)

Based on the SiPongi forest and land fire monitoring system of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), monitoring over the last 24 hours detected 240 hotspots in Indonesia. This number is a decrease of 49 points compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of imagery from Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA satellites accessed on Friday (April 17, 2026) at 11:35 WIB. Of the 240 detected hotspots, 6 have a high confidence level, 227 are medium scale, and 7 are low scale.

Hotspot confidence levels are divided into 3 scales. Low scale ranges from 0 - 29, medium scale 30 - 79, and high scale 80 - 100. The higher the hotspot confidence level, the greater the possibility of forest and land fires occurring in a particular area.

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The most hotspots were detected in South Sulawesi with 28 points. North Maluku ranks second with 23 hotspots. East Java is third with 20 hotspots.

20 hotspots were detected in Central Sulawesi, South Kalimantan follows with 18 hotspots, while North Kalimantan and West Kalimantan have 16 and 15 detected hotspots respectively.

Hotspots are coordinate points in an area with a higher surface temperature than the surroundings, and do not represent the number of forest and land fire incidents.

However, a large number of clustered hotspots in an area indicates the occurrence of forest and land fires. This means that satellite remote sensing hotspot data remains the most effective for monitoring forest and land fires over large areas.

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