156 Hotspots Detected in Indonesia in the Last 24 Hours (Wednesday, December 3, 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 156 hotspots were detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots increased by 11 points compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of satellite imagery from Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA, accessed on Wednesday (3/12/2025) at 11:12 AM WIB. Of the 156 detected hotspots, 2 points have a high confidence level, 152 points are at a medium scale, and 2 points are at a low scale.

Hotspot confidence levels are 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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The most detected hotspots were in Central Sulawesi with 33 points. North Maluku was in second place with 28 hotspots. Bengkulu was in third place with 20 hotspots.

A total of 8 hotspots were detected in South Sumatra, followed by Maluku with 6 hotspots, and East Kalimantan and East Java each had 5 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 detected by remote sensing satellites is still the most effective in monitoring forest and land fires over a large area.

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