Jakarta: Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Mahfud MD highlighted the government’s precautionary measures against land and forest fires forecast to increase in the dry season during the July-October 2020 period.
"We have to take precautionary measures against land and forest fires," the minister remarked here on Thursday.
President Joko Widodo has issued Presidential Instruction (Inpres) No. 3 of 2020 on prevention, enforcement of law against land and forest fires, and on-field handling.
As stipulated in the Inpres, land and forest fire handling efforts would be undertaken under the directions and management of the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs.
Mahfud cautioned that the nation must not disregard the potential of forest fires while focusing on the handling of the covid-19 pandemic.
"We agree that this calls for seriously handling both issues. We should not ignore the potential of forest fires and only focus on the covid-19 pandemic," he emphasized.
In 2019, forest fires had ravaged almost 16 thousand square kilometers of land, mostly on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan.
In 2015, the fires blazed through 26 thousand kilometers of land, thereby resulting in one of the worst haze episodes in the country’s history. (antara)
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