Jambi Deputy Chief Of Police Takes Helicopters To Map Forest And Land Fire Vulnerable Points To The South Sumatra Border

Jambi Deputy Chief of Police Brigadier General Edi Mardianto inspected the hotspots from the air, Tuesday (30/7/2024). (ANTARA/HO-Polda Jambi)

Jambi Deputy Chief of Police Brigadier General Edi Mardianto monitors a number of hotspots for forest and land fires (karhutla). Monitoring via this airway to the Jambi-South Sumatra (Sumsel) border.

The Head of Public Relations of the Jambi Police, Senior Commissioner of Police Mulia Prianto, said that this effort is expected to quickly prevent or cope with the spread of fire, so as not to cause a wider land fire.

"This monitoring is carried out to monitor hotspots in the Jambi area," he said in Jambi, Tuesday, July 30, which was confiscated by Antara.

Monitoring of hotspots starting from the Raider 142/Kesatria Jaya Jambi Infantry Battalion field, the group departed using a BELL 412 REG: PKURD helicopter.

The locations that were observed were land fires in Muaro Medak Village, Bayung Lencir District, Musi Banyuasin, South Sumatra Province.

Based on the results of observations, the land burned was land for the people of Muara Medak Village, Bayung Agwir Musi Banyuasin District with an estimated area of 15 hectares.

He mentioned that the location of the fire was peatland and was surrounded by a canal with a width of 1.5 meters.

The distance between the hotspots is close to the Jambi border, precisely from Sungai Gelam District, Muaro Jambi.

"About 21 km away," he said.

Furthermore, the Jambi Regional Police and related parties will continue to monitor areas prone to land fires.

In monitoring this hotspot, the Deputy Chief of Police was accompanied by Karo Ops Polda Jambi Kombes Pol M. Edi Faryadi, Head of Sub-Directorate for Tipidter Ditreskrimsus Jambi Police AKBP Reza Khomeini.

Previously, it was reported that the Jambi Police Chief Inspector General Rusdi Hartono was ready to take action against the perpetrators of forest and land fires, causing forest and land fires.

He ensured that if an intention was found to burn land, whether individual, group or company, the police would take firm action in accordance with applicable regulations.

He said that there was no longer any reason for someone to deliberately burn forests and land, because the socialization process regarding the prohibition of burning land had been carried out for a long time.