KLHK Detects 1,575 Hotspots in Indonesia, Most in West Kalimantan (Friday, August 8, 2025)

Based on the SiPongi forest and land fire monitoring system of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), the last 24-hour monitoring shows that 1,575 hotspots were detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots increased by 756 points compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of satellite imagery from Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA, accessed on Friday (8/8/2025) at 11:21 AM WIB. Of the 1,575 detected hotspots, 25 points have a high hotspot confidence level, 1520 points are at a medium scale, and 30 points are at 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 certain area.

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The most detected hotspots are in West Kalimantan, with 1062 points. East Nusa Tenggara ranks second with 75 hotspots. East Java is in third place with 62 hotspots.

A total of 41 hotspots were detected in South Kalimantan, followed by South Sumatra with 40 hotspots, and East Kalimantan and North Sumatra each having 39 and 37 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 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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