JAKARTA, Oct 27 — Indonesia continues efforts to extinguish underground peat fires, despite rainfall easing firefighting operations in several affected areas.
The Forestry Ministry said high-confidence forest and land fire hotspots nationwide fell to 93 from 147 a day earlier.
Across six priority provinces, it said the number of hotspots fell to 10 from 26 as of 9pm local time on Monday, with five detected in West Kalimantan, three in Central Kalimantan and two in South Sumatra. No hotspots were detected in South Kalimantan, Jambi or Riau.
“This decline continues the positive trend observed over the past few days. However, it is important to reiterate that hotspots indicate surface temperature anomalies detected by satellites, and a single fire incident can be detected as several hotspots.
