Indonesia Successfully Reduces Deforestation and Land, Forest Fires

This condition was anticipated through various efforts to prevent forest and land fires since the beginning of the year and consistently carry out various efforts to prevent forest and land fires, starting from monitoring hotspots, establishing policies, taking action in the field both preventive measures, extinguishing, to law enforcement.  

Indonesia also managed to mitigate the impact of El Nino so that the number of hotspots and the extent of forest and land fires were not as high as in previous years. 

The area of forest and land fires in 2023 is 1,161,192 ha while the area of forest and land fires in 2019 is 1,649,258 ha.