Ministry of Environment and Forestry: Number of Hotspots in Indonesia Reaches 895 in the Last 24 Hours (Monday, January 19, 2026)

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 895 hotspots were detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots increased by 430 points compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA satellite imagery accessed on Monday (January 19, 2026) at 11:03 AM WIB. Of the 895 detected hotspots, 19 points had a high hotspot confidence level, 833 points were medium scale, and 43 points were 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 likelihood of forest and land fires occurring in a particular area.

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The most detected hotspots were in West Kalimantan, with 202 points. Aceh ranked second with 120 hotspots. Central Sulawesi was in third place with 114 hotspots.

A total of 100 hotspots were detected in East Kalimantan, followed by South Sulawesi with 53 hotspots, and North Maluku and North Sumatra each having 47 and 46 detected hotspots, respectively.

A hotspot is a coordinate point of an area that has a higher surface temperature compared to its surroundings, and not the number of forest and land fire incidents.

However, a large number of hotspots clustered 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 over a large area.

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