Temporary Report Of TNGR, Area Of Burning Mount Rinjani Reaches 55 Hectares

Land area in Mount Rinjani, Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara Province which experienced a fire, Thursday (2/11/2023) (ANTARA/HO-Humas Balai TNGR)

LOMBOK - Mount Rinjani National Park Center (TNGR) Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Province stated, a temporary report is estimated to have a burned area in the location of the Sembalun Village forest which is located in the Mount Rinjani area reaching 55 hectares. "The cause of the fire is still not known with certainty. The burned area reaches 55 hectares," said TNGR Hall Head Dedy Asriady in a written statement in Mataram, Antara, Thursday, November 2. Security for SPTN II TNGR reports that a hot spot has been monitored through the Sipongi application in the Sembalun Resort area of BTNGR, a land fire occurred on October 31, 2023. Then the Dalkarhutla Integrated Team consisting of Koramil Sembalun, Sembalun Police, Sembalun District Police, Sembalun MPA, Sembalun MMP, Rintim Sembalun KPH Post, Battalion 3 Company B Satbrimob Polda NTB and BTNGR Sembalun Resort officers began to make efforts to control the fires that occurred in the Rinjani area. "The types of vegetation that are burned include shrubs, perdu, grass and dried leaves, trees, tubbakkan trees, mountain spruce and saropan," he said.

He said that as of Thursday, November 1, 2023, all of the fire had not been extinguished and the team was still trying to extinguish the forest fire at the location of the Sembalun Village Gombongan forest fire which was in the BTNGR Forest area. "The fire has not been extinguished until now," he said.