BNPB Beware Of Dry Seasons From July To August 2023

Screenshot - Acting Head Of BNBP Data, Information And Disaster Center Abdul Muhari

JAKARTA - The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) is wary of the dry season in the next three months, namely June, July, and August which is predicted to reach the peak of the dry season in 2023.

Acting Head of the BNBP Data, Information and Disaster Center Abdul Muhari said the dry hydrometeorological disaster had dominated even though the number was still volatile.

As of Monday (5/6), Indonesia has been hit by around 1,300 disasters and hotspots from areas that have the most incidents in Java, Sumatra, and Sulawesi.

However, Abdul explained that this year's dry season is different because in the last three years Indonesia has been in a wet period influenced by La Nina, which carries rain clouds.

Because of this, on average, every month Indonesia has never actually experienced a drought or relatively high temperature. Forest fires are relatively, even if it happens it will be extinguished quickly, because natural factors support the acceleration of fire extinguishing.

"But, if we look here in the five months running in 2033, forest and land fires (karhutla) have occurred 125 times. This means that, as at the beginning of the year, the BMKG has submitted it, repeated many times by even the President himself, that starting in 2023 we will be in a dry period," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, June 6.

Abdul said the dry season prediction will occur in the next 2-3 years so vigilance is needed so that there will be no striking forest and land fires as in 2015 and 2019.

"Don't let us be prepared for forest and land fires from now on. We certainly have to really anticipate the potential for forest and land fires," said Abdul.