MoEF Detects 287 Hotspots in Indonesia, Most in East Nusa Tenggara (Wednesday, October 22, 2025)

Based on the SiPongi forest and land fire monitoring system of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF), monitoring in the last 24 hours shows that 287 hotspots were detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots decreased by 143 points compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA satellite imagery accessed on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) at 11:53 AM WIB. Of the 287 detected hotspots, 12 points had a high hotspot confidence level, 272 points were on a medium scale, and 3 points were on a low scale.

The hotspot confidence level is 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 East Nusa Tenggara, with 77 points. Central Kalimantan ranked second with 57 hotspots. North Maluku was in third place with 45 hotspots.

As many as 19 hotspots were detected in Southeast Sulawesi, followed by South Papua with 16 hotspots, and West Nusa Tenggara and East Kalimantan each had 12 and 10 detected hotspots, respectively.

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 for large areas.

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