KLHK Finds 791 Hotspots in Indonesia, Most in East Nusa Tenggara (Wednesday, October 29, 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 791 hotspots were detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots increased by 502 points compared to the previous period.

This data is the result of Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA satellite imagery, accessed on Wednesday (October 29, 2025) at 11:53 AM WIB. Of the 791 detected hotspots, 27 points had a high hotspot confidence level, 699 points were on a medium scale, and 65 points were on a low scale.

Hotspot confidence levels are 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 detected hotspots were in East Nusa Tenggara, with 286 points. North Sumatra ranked second with 128 hotspots. West Sumatra was in third place with 100 hotspots.

As many as 54 hotspots were detected in Aceh, followed by West Nusa Tenggara with 42 hotspots, and Riau and Central Sulawesi each had 30 detected hotspots.

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 in monitoring forest and land fires for large areas.

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