High Risk of Forest Fires With 173 Hotspots Reported in Sumatra

Jakarta. The Pekanbaru Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, or BMKG, has detected 173 hotspots with a high potential, or 50 percent chance, for forest and land fires on the Sumatran mainland on Monday (08/08).

The agency reported that that the hotspots were scattered over nine of the 10 provinces on the island. The number of hotspots increases by 12 since Sunday.

source: http://jakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/news/high-risk-forest-fires-173-hotspots-reported-sumatra/