KLHK Detects 150 Hotspots in Indonesia, Most in North Maluku (Tuesday, December 23, 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 150 hotspots detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots increased by 46 points compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of satellite imagery from Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA, accessed on Tuesday (23/12/2025) at 11:36 AM WIB. Of the 150 detected hotspots, 3 points have a high confidence level, 144 points are at a medium scale, and 3 points are at a low scale.

Hotspot confidence levels are divided into 3 scales. Low scale has a range of 0 - 29, medium scale 30 - 79, and 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 are in North Maluku with 28 points. East Java ranks second with the highest number of hotspots at 23 points. Riau Islands is in third place with 10 hotspots.

A total of 9 hotspots were detected in Jambi, followed by Bengkulu with 9 hotspots, and Central Java and Lampung each having 7 and 7 detected hotspots.

A hotspot is a coordinate point of an area that has a higher surface temperature compared to its surroundings, and not the number of forest and land fire incidents.

However, a large number of clustered hotspots in an 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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