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Indonesia Expects Seasonal Rains to Douse Forest Fires Soon

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Smoke covers a forest hit by a wildfire in Kapuas regency near Palangka Raya in Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia, on Sept. 30, 2019. / Reuters

Smoke covers a forest hit by a wildfire in Kapuas regency near Palangka Raya in Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia, on Sept. 30, 2019. / Reuters

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JAKARTA—Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency, the BNPB, said it expects forest fires that have been raging through parts of Sumatra island and in Kalimantan on the Indonesian portion of Borneo island will end soon with the arrival of the rainy season.

Indonesia has spent months battling forest fires, often caused by slash-and-burn farming practices, as an El Nino weather pattern intensifies the annual dry season and fires create a choking haze across the region.

“Referring to a report compiled based on the latest satellite imagery and direct observations in the field, it can be concluded that the 2019 forest fires episode will soon be over,” BNPB spokesman Agus Wibowo said in a statement.

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Indonesia’s weather agency said, based on satellite imagery, the number of hot spots had declined by 78 percent in the Sept. 26-28 period.

Indonesia has deployed more than 29,000 personnel to fight fires and dozens of aircraft to conduct water bombing and cloud-seeding efforts to trigger rain.

Rain has fallen in areas such as Riau, Jambi and South Sumatra, as well as in Central Kalimantan province on Borneo island, the BNPB said.

The weather agency said it would maintain cloud-seeding procedures in both Sumatra and Kalimantan to optimize the potential for rain.

The BNPB said more than 320,000 hectares of forest had been burned from January to August this year, in what is seen as the worst such damage to forests since 2015.

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