Ministry of Environment and Forestry: Indonesia's Hotspot Count Reaches 428 in the Last 24 Hours (Sunday, April 26, 2026)
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Based on the SiPongi forest and land fire monitoring system of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), monitoring over the last 24 hours detected 428 hotspots in Indonesia. This number is a decrease of 76 hotspots compared to the previous period.
The data is the result of imagery from Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA satellites accessed on Sunday (April 26, 2026) at 11:47 WIB. Of the 428 detected hotspots, 26 have a high confidence level, 391 are medium scale, and 11 are low scale.
Hotspot confidence levels are divided into 3 scales. Low scale ranges from 0 - 29, medium scale from 30 - 79, and high scale from 80 - 100. The higher the hotspot confidence level, the greater the possibility of forest and land fires occurring in a particular area.
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The most hotspots were detected in East Kalimantan with 143. Central Sulawesi ranks second with 49 hotspots, and North Maluku is third with 41 hotspots.
33 hotspots were detected in South Sulawesi, followed by North Kalimantan with 30 hotspots, while South Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan have 19 and 17 detected hotspots respectively.
A hotspot is a coordinate point in an area with a higher surface temperature than its surroundings, and does not represent 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 satellite remote sensing hotspot data remains the most effective way to monitor forest and land fires over large areas.
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