Pekanbaru, Riau, Oct 20 (ANTARA) - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) satellite has detected 202 hot spots on Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Tuesday, an authority said.
The Pekanbaru-based Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency's analyst, Slamet Riyadi, said here Tuesday that most of the hot spots were found in South Sumatra Province with 66 hot spots.
The remaining hot spots were detected in the provinces of Jambi, Riau, Bangka Belitung, North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Aceh, and Lampung with 42, 36, 24, 16, 13, 3 and 2 hot spots respectively, he said.
On Monday, the imagery data released by NOAA satellite showed 358 hot spots throughout the island. But the number decreased to 202 thanks to rainfalls in some provinces, he said.
The presence of hot spots in Riau and other provinces in Sumatra Island was one of the indications of forest and bush fires,
In extinguishing the forest and bush fire, the Riau provincial government was recommended to make artificial rain to halt the spread of fire, he said.
"We are going to ask the central government (through forestry ministry) to provide us with funds for making artificial rain," he said.
