KLHK: Number of Hotspots in Indonesia Reached 1,309 in the Last 24 Hours (Wednesday, September 3, 2025)

Based on the SiPongi forest and land fire monitoring system of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), the last 24-hour monitoring showed 1,309 hotspots detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots decreased by 239 points compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA satellite imagery accessed on Wednesday (September 3, 2025) at 11:35 AM WIB. Of the 1,309 detected hotspots, 56 points have a high hotspot confidence level, 1,201 points are medium scale, and 52 points are low 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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The most hotspots were detected in East Nusa Tenggara with 524 points. West Kalimantan ranked second with 109 hotspots. South Papua was in third place with 90 hotspots.

A total of 77 hotspots were detected in East Kalimantan, followed by East Java with 67 hotspots, while West Nusa Tenggara and Southeast Sulawesi each had 63 and 56 hotspots detected.

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 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 for large areas.

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