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National scene: Hot spots detected in Sumatra
The US Terra and Aqua satellites have detected 36 hot spots indicating forest fires in Sumatra on Saturday morning
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he US Terra and Aqua satellites have detected 36 hot spots indicating forest fires in Sumatra on Saturday morning.
The two satellites showed that 11 hot spots are in Jambi, 10 in Riau, nine in South Sumatra, two each in Aceh and Lampung, and one each in North Sumatra and West Sumatra, head of the Pekanbaru Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Office Sugarin said as quoted by Antara.
'In Riau province, seven of the 10 hot spots were found in Indragiri Hulu,' he said.
As a result, from Friday to Saturday Riau was shrouded in a haze that included smoke from the neighboring provinces of Jambi and South Sumatra.
While visibility in Pekanbaru, Pelalawan and Rengat dropped to between three to five kilometers, it dropped even more to one kilometer because of haze in Dumai.
However, authorities at the Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport in Pekanbaru had decided not to cancel flights to and from the airport.
Sugarin said the Air Quality Standard Index in the six regions in Riau indicated that the air quality was moderate.
He also predicted that based on the direction of the winds the haze could soon be blown across the Malacca Strait to Malaysia and Singapore.
