A police officer sprays water in an attempt to extinguish a fire that razes through a peatland field in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, July 20, 2025. -- AP Photo/Muhammad Hatta JAKARTA ...

TEMPO.CO, Pekanbaru - Fire Hotspots that potentially trigger forest and peat land fires in a number of areas in Sumatra are now getting widespread. The number of hot spots has now risen to 674 hot ...

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TEMPO.CO, Pekanbaru - The Pekanbaru Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said Tera and Aqua satellites detected 590 hotspots in several areas in Sumatra. The number of hotspots jumped ...

JAKARTA (Bernama): At least seven hectares of land were scorched by forest and land fires across Indonesia’s Sumatra Island over the weekend, with blazes reported in West Sumatra and Aceh provinces, ...

Thu, March 16, 2017 Published on Mar. 15, 2017 Published on 2017-03-15T20:50:37+07:00 he Fire Free Alliance (FFA), a collective made up primarily of forestry and agriculture companies and civil ...