KLHK Finds 123 Hotspots in Indonesia, Most in East Java (Saturday, December 20, 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 123 hotspots were detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots increased by 24 points compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA satellite imagery accessed on Saturday (20/12/2025) at 11:36 AM Western Indonesian Time. Of the 123 hotspots detected, 7 points have a high hotspot confidence level and 116 points have a medium scale.

The hotspot confidence level is divided into 3 scales. The low scale ranges from 0 - 29, the medium scale from 30 - 79, and the high scale from 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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Most hotspots were detected in East Java, with 32 points. Southeast Sulawesi ranks second with 15 hotspots. North Maluku is in third place with 15 hotspots.

As many as 9 hotspots were detected in East Kalimantan, followed by South Sumatra with 8 hotspots, and West Kalimantan and Central Sulawesi each having 7 and 6 hotspots detected, respectively.

A hotspot is a coordinate point of an area that has a higher surface temperature than its surroundings, and is 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 over a large area.

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