Forest And Land Fires In Bengkulu Expand, Mukomuko Police Forms A Special Team

Illustration of forest fires (ANTARA)

MUKOMUKO - Mukomuko Resort Police, Bengkulu Province, formed a special team to prevent forest and land fires (karhutla) in this area. "We are always on alert and alert, at the Resort Police, we always form a special team for monitoring hotspots or 'hotspots' to prevent forest and land fires," said Mukomuko Police Chief AKBP Nuswanto quoted by ANTARA, Thursday 21 September. He said this after participating in the Bengkulu Province's Troops and Preparedness Equipment for Combating Karhutla and Drought Disasters" in the Military District Command Headquarters (Makodim) 0428/Mukomuko area. The presence in the rally was Deputy Regent Mukomuko Wasri, Regional Secretary Abdiyanto, Head of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Bengkulu Jaduliwan Province, Dandim Lt. Col. Infantry Lieutenant Andri S, Mukomuko Police Chief AKBP Nuswanto, Mukomuko District Attorney, Head of BPBD Mukomuko Regency Runner, Ruri Irwandi, Head of Mukomuko Ramdani Regency Fire Department, and Acting Head of the Mukomuko Regency Environment Service, Budi Yanto. He said that members of the special team always carry out fire point monitoring in this area and give warnings to the public so as not to burn forests and land. "If at this time there are several hotspots, but after we check in the field, it is not forest and land fires but only people are burning garbage," he said. Oleh, so that there are no "hotspots" points in the Mukomuko Regency area, then do not do not do burn the garbage. He said the weather conditions in this area are the same as in other areas, namely the dry season and rain are rare so that it is very vulnerable to land and forest fires.

For this reason, he asked the entire community not to burn forests, whether it's for land clearing or burning garbage. "Try if you want to clean up the garbage, don't burn it but put it in a hole piled or just leave it piled up by itself in the hole," he said.