JAKARTA - The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) predicts that the average rainfall in the 2026 dry season will be lower than the average rainfall in the last 30 years.
"With average rainfall below normal compared to the dry season over the past 30 years, the rainfall condition this year will be lower or below normal," said BMKG Head Teuku Faisal Fathani as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, April 6.
BMKG also predicts that the dry season this year will start earlier and longer, starting in April or May, with its peak in August.
"Drought will come faster and longer. We will enter the dry season, starting in April or May, the peak will be in August, then it will end in September or early October," said Teuku Faisal Fathani.
BMKG is also monitoring the El Nino phenomenon in Indonesia. "We are monitoring El Nino at this time is still weak to moderate," he said.
The Ministry of Forestry is partnering with the BMKG to prevent forest and land fires (karhutla) during the dry season.
One of his efforts is by rewetting peatland using the BMKG Weather Modification Operation (OMC).
"We are making preventive efforts, we try to do rewetting when we still have clouds that we can sow, with the sowing material then it rains can wet the peatland so that later the potential for forest and land fires can be suppressed as much as possible," said Teuku Faisal Fathani.
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