JAKARTA - The Ministry of Home Affairs encourages local governments to strengthen preventive efforts to anticipate forest and land fires (karhutla).
"The high potential for forest fires on peatlands encourages various parties, especially local governments, to strengthen coordination and collaboration through supervision and various preventive actions to anticipate wider forest fires," said Director General of Regional Administration of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Safrizal ZA in a statement received in Jakarta, Thursday, July 28, quoted from Antara.
Citing data from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), hotspots were observed in a number of provinces. Peatlands are areas that have the potential to become hotspots for forest or land fires.
There are four provinces with the largest peatlands in Indonesia, namely Papua, Riau, Central Kalimantan and West Kalimantan.
The Ministry of Home Affairs appreciates regional heads who are progressive in forming volunteer firefighters (Redkar), which is a necessity to multiply the power of fire fighting and rescue in the regions.
"Where Redkar can take on a dual role, both in preventing and handling fires, including being an agent of socialization and education to the wider community about the threat of fire hazards in their respective areas," said Safrizal at the Redkar inauguration ceremony at the Kubu Raya Regent's Office, West Kalimantan. .
With the limited number of fire and rescue personnel, it is almost impossible to build an early warning system and carry out fire handling by the fire department or fire department alone.
At that point, according to him, the presence of volunteer personnel such as those who are members of Redkar becomes important and urgent to be immediately formed, organized and utilized, to help prevent and deal with fires, both domestic and forest fires.
"The Director General of Regional Administration of the Ministry of Home Affairs always invites all local governments to immediately form Redkar as an element that will determine the success of fire fighting and rescue efforts, especially in areas that have a high potential for fires, such as West Kalimantan," he explained.
In addition to concrete needs in the field, this is also in line with the implementation of the mandate of the Minister of Home Affairs Regulation (Permendagri) Number 114 of 2018 concerning Basic Service Technical Standards on Minimum Service Standards for District and City Fire Sub-affairs.
And, in line with the Decree of the Minister of Home Affairs (Kepmdagri) Number 364.1-306 of 2020 concerning Guidelines for the Guidance of Volunteer Firefighters.
"Keep uplifting the spirit of Yudha Brama Jaya, Redkar moves from his conscience and responsibility to humanity for fire fighting and rescue," he said.
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