Preventing Repetitive Rinjani-Papandayan Incidents, KLHK Emphasizes The Importance Of Forest And Land Fire Education In Tourist Areas

Officers extinguished the Mount Papandayan Garut forest and land fires on Monday, October 23. (Between)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) said education about the dangers of forest and land fires (karhutla) in tourist sites is an important need. Director General of Forestry and Environmental Planning of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry Hanif Faisol Nurofid said the education could avoid forest and land fires such as in Mount Papandayan and Mount Rinjani. "Education to visitors at tourist attractions to prevent forest and land fires is important," he said in Jakarta, Wednesday, October 25, which was confiscated by Antara. Currently, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry together with the Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) and the Directorate General of Climate Change Control (PPI) are still trying to deal with forest and land fires that occur in the Gunung Papandayan area. "It is being handled by KSDA (Natural Resources Conservation) friends with the Directorate General of Climate Change Control (PPI), later we are currently evaluating but indeed the support from the local police is also very important, like in Bromo and so on, so maybe we have to do this together, right," he said.

According to him, providing education to the public as stakeholders in Jambi Province, such as deploying troops to the field to spread banners is an important step. "So the presence of friends at tourist attractions also seems to have to be digitized, so we don't go for a race, so we have to ride a bit when the drought has approached the dry season, the Jambi Provincial friends have taken early precautions," he said. The West Java Natural Resources Conservation Center (BBKSDA) noted that the area of land burned on Mount Papangayan reached 100 hectares. The forest and land fires forced the management of the Mount Papandayan tourist area to limit tourist access to the mountain tourist area. Restrictions on visitors are only up to Post III of Mount Papandayan to facilitate the blackout process.