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Indonesia predicted to have normal dry season in 2025
The dry season will start in most areas in April and is expected to reach its peak in June up until August, the agency's climatology deputy Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan told reporters in a briefing.
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A villager carries hay cut from a field to feed his livestock amid a drought in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) on April 21, 2021. (AFP/Azwar Ipank)
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ndonesia is expected to witness a normal dry season in 2025, following a similar pattern to last year, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said on Thursday, even as it highlighted risks of forest fires and drought in some areas.
The dry season will start in most areas in April and is expected to reach its peak in June up until August, the agency's climatology deputy Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan told reporters in a briefing.
"There is no dominant El Nino weather pattern, so this year's dry season prediction is relatively normal, tending to be similar to 2024 and not as dry as 2023," he said.
Indonesia's dry season in 2023 was the most severe since 2019 due to El Nino weather phenomenon that lasted longer than usual, bringing a drought that damaged crops and exacerbated forest fires.
Detailing this year's prediction, the agency said a normal dry season would occur in most areas in Kalimantan, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Papua islands.
However, the dry season will be more severe in some provinces such as North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Central Sulawesi, North Maluku, and South Papua, the agency's head Dwikorita Karnawati said.
The agency highlighted the risk of forest fires in northern parts of Sumatra islands and southern parts of Kalimantan islands in June until August, or during the peak of the dry season.
