Ministry of Environment and Forestry: Number of Hotspots in Indonesia Reaches 70 in Last 24 Hours (Sunday, December 14, 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 that 70 hotspots were detected in Indonesia.

The data is the result of Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA satellite imagery accessed on Sunday (14/12/2025) at 11:27 AM WIB. Of the 70 detected hotspots, 67 were medium scale and 3 were low scale.

Hotspot confidence levels are divided into 3 scales. Low scale ranges from 0 - 29, medium scale 30 - 79, and high scale 80 - 100. The higher the hotspot confidence level, the higher the probability of forest and land fires occurring in a particular area.

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The highest number of detected hotspots was in North Maluku with 34 points. Southeast Sulawesi ranked second with 12 hotspots. Papua was in third place with 6 hotspots.

As many as 5 hotspots were detected in Central Papua, followed by South Kalimantan with 3 hotspots, and West Java and East Java each having 3 and 2 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 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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