Ministry of Environment and Forestry Detects 165 Hotspots in Indonesia, Most in Maluku (Monday, October 27, 2025)

Based on the SiPongi forest and land fire monitoring system of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF), monitoring in the last 24 hours shows 165 hotspots detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots decreased by 271 points compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of satellite imagery from Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA, accessed on Monday (27/10/2025) at 11:53 AM WIB. Of the 165 hotspots detected, 2 points have a high hotspot confidence level, 159 points are at a medium scale, and 4 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 possibility of forest and land fires occurring in a certain area.

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The most detected hotspots are in Maluku with 27 points. West Nusa Tenggara ranks second with the most hotspots, having 22 points. North Maluku is in third place with 19 hotspots.

A total of 18 hotspots were detected in East Nusa Tenggara, followed by East Java with 15 hotspots, while North Sumatra and South Sumatra each had 13 and 11 hotspots detected, respectively.

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 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 for monitoring forest and land fires over a large area.

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