KLHK: Number of Hotspots in Indonesia Reaches 90 in the Last 24 Hours (Tuesday, January 6, 2026)

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 90 hotspots were detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots increased by 53 points compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of satellite imagery from Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA, accessed on Tuesday (Jan 6, 2026) at 11:36 AM WIB. Of the 90 detected hotspots, 89 were of medium scale and 1 was of low 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 17 points. East Nusa Tenggara ranked second with 12 hotspots. East Kalimantan was in third place with 9 hotspots.

As many as 8 hotspots were detected in South Sulawesi, followed by Southeast Sulawesi with 8 hotspots, and Central Java and West Java each had 7 detected hotspots.

A hotspot is a coordinate point in 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 clustered hotspots 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 for large areas.

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