50 Hotspots Detected in Indonesia in the Last 24 Hours (Monday, December 15, 2025)

Based on the SiPongi forest and land fire monitoring system of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), monitoring in the last 24 hours shows that 50 hotspots were detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots is 20 fewer than the previous period.

The data is the result of Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA satellite imagery, accessed on Monday (15/12/2025) at 11.27 AM Western Indonesia Time (WIB). Of the 50 detected hotspots, 1 point has a high hotspot confidence level and 49 points are at a medium scale.

Hotspot confidence levels are divided into 3 scales. The low scale has a range of 0 - 29, the medium scale 30 - 79, and the high scale 80 - 100. The higher the hotspot confidence level, the higher the likelihood of forest and land fires occurring in a particular area.

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The most detected hotspots were in North Maluku with 23 points. East Kalimantan ranked second with 5 hotspots. Central Papua was in third place with 5 hotspots.

As many as 4 hotspots were detected in North Kalimantan, followed by North Sulawesi with 4 hotspots, and South Sulawesi and Papua each had 2 and 2 detected hotspots.

A hotspot is a coordinate point of an area that has a higher surface temperature than its surroundings, and not the number of forest and land fire incidents.

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

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