Anticipating The Arrival Of Kemarau, The Tool To Prevent Forest And Land Fires In Lamandau, Central Kalimantan, Is Checked By The Police

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The Lamandau Police in Central Kalimantan (Central Kalimantan) has checked the facilities and infrastructure (sarpras) of a number of palm oil companies in their area to anticipate forest and land fires (karhutla).

The Head of the Lamandau Police, AKBP Bronto Budiyono, checked the infrastructure belonging to the company PT. Sawit Mandiri Lestari (SML).

"The inspection of sarpras in one of the palm oil companies is to check all the completeness of forest and land fires equipment, to anticipate forest and land fires in the local company area," he said in Lamandau Regency, Central Kalimantan, Sunday, March 19, which was confiscated by Antara.

He said, according to the forecast of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) in mid-2023, Indonesia will experience a dry season.

There are even three provinces that will experience extreme dryness, including Riau Province, West Kalimantan (West Kalimantan) and Central Kalimantan.

In order to anticipate the arrival of the dry season, of course the Lamandau Police have prepared all of their infrastructure to anticipate this, even companies in their jurisdiction are also asked to cooperate in preventing forest and land fires from occurring in the dry season.

"For the sarpras that we checked at PT. SML, among others, fire extinguishers, including fire fighting tanks, jinjing pumps, aparters, gepyok and so on. Then there is also the readiness of other things, namely reservoirs, fire monitoring towers and fire disposal teams that have been trained at the company," he said.

With this kind of coordination, the Lamandau Police are very grateful to the company PT SML which also helps the local government to prevent forest and land fires in their area.

Even the Lamandau Police will also coordinate with other companies to do the same. Moreover, this year it is predicted that the dryness will be quite hot and can cause forest and land fires to occur everywhere.

"We hope that coordination and synergy will continue to be established, in an effort to minimize forest and land fires in the Lamandau Regency area," said the police officer with the rank of jasmine two.

Previously, the Central Kalimantan Provincial Government also focused on dealing with forest and land fires so that this year's dry season would not occur in the province which has an area of twice that of Java Island. No kidding, the Central Kalimantan Provincial Government has also budgeted forest and land fires and floods of IDR 100 billion.

This is budgeted, of course, a form of the seriousness of the local provincial government to anticipate the occurrence of forest and land fires which has been anticipated for several years, while flooding is still happening in a number of areas in Central Kalimantan.