REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) revealed here Wednesday that efforts to extinguish the forest and land fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan Islands remain continued by involving more than ten thousand people.

"Thick haze still blanket the provinces of Riau, Jambi and Central Kalimantan," the BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in response to the ongoing haze disaster that does not only affect the two main islands of Indonesia but also Singapore as well as certain parts of Malaysia and Thailand.

The efforts to put out the forest and land fires are made through land and air operation, he said adding that the Terra and Aqua satellites on Wednesday detected 421 hot spots in Sumatra Island and 39 hot spots in Kalimantan Island.

"In Sumatra, 351 of the total number of hot spots are detected in South Sumatra Province while the others are found in the provinces of Lampung, Bangka Belitung, Jambi and Bengkulu with 45, seven, 14 and four hot spots respectively," he said.

Meanwhile, the provinces in Kalimantan Island that have been struggling to extinguish the forest and land fires are West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan and North Kalimantan. Thirty two out of 39 hot spots indicating fires on the ground were detected in East Kalimantan, he said.

Nugroho said the struggle to extinguish the forest and land fires in the disaster zones in Sumatra and Kalimantan involves more than ten thousands of personnel of the provincial disaster mitigation agency, military and police as well as society members.

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