BNPB: The Trend Of Disaster Events In Aceh Begins To Shift To Karhutla

Capture The Screen/Officer Of The Head Of The BNPB Disaster Information And Communication Data Center Abdul Muhari In Disaster Briefing: Forest And Land Fire Alerts

JAKARTA - The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) explained that the trend of disasters in Aceh Province began to shift from flooding to forest and land fires (karhutla).

Acting Head of the BNPB Disaster Data, Information and Communication Center Abdul Muhari explained that although he did not own a large peatland, Aceh was an area prone to forest and land fires.

"Because the day without rain in Aceh is quite long, and the forests in Aceh are in a dry position so that they are slightly splashed out, whether it is cigarette butts or conditions influenced by human factors in general, it is very easy to trigger forest and land fires," said Antara, Monday, June 19.

He explained the fact that Aceh was not a priority province, because historically it was an area prone to forest and land fires with a proportion of peatlands that were not large enough.

The areas with the dominant peat, namely Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan and South Kalimantan.

"Although North Kalimantan and East Kalimantan are also dominant in peatlands, in the past few days it is still quite dominant in rain so that forest and land fires events are not significant," said Abdul.

BNPB recorded that there were 1,759 disasters in Indonesia. Karhutla began to dominate 144 times, although in general this is still dominated by floods, extreme weather, and landslides because it is still at the end of the La Nina period in early 2023.

"Since early May, the proportion of flood events has started to draw with forest and land fires that dominate this many times, floods are only three times and extreme weather is a tornado that currently has occurred nine times, accompanied by rain and no rain at all," he said.