MadaniNews At the Public Hearing (RDPU) of the Working Committee of Commission IV of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI) regarding the Control and Action of Forest and Land Fires (Karhutla) with experts and Non-Governmental Organizations (Monday, June 28, 2021), the Madani Berkelanjutan Foundation introduced the concept of Potential Burning Areas (APT) as a solution in efforts to prevent forest and land fires in the country.

Giorgio Budi Indrarto, as the Program Director of the Madani Berkelanjutan Foundation who was present at the RDPU, said that APT is one form of Madani's contribution to the government's efforts to control and take action against forest and land fires.

" Early control of forest and land fires is a key focus in forest and land fire management efforts. Therefore, to help us determine our next course of action more quickly, Madani is presenting the APT concept as a concrete form of support to the government, providing a way to evaluate forest fires that occurred in the previous year and also review cases from the past five months ," said Giorgio Budi Indrarto, better known as Jojo.

In general, APT is an approach to estimate areas that are highly likely to experience forest and land fires based on the number, distribution and duration of fires.

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Jojo also emphasized the importance of using APT to provide the government with quick readings and enable swift action based on accurate data. " This APT was also developed with a significant data correlation with SiPongi, between 92-95%, so the margin of error is very small ," Jojo concluded.

In the RDPU of the Working Committee of Commission IV of the Indonesian House of Representatives Regarding the Control and Enforcement of Forest and Land Fires, several experts were present, such as Prof. Dr. Bambang Hero Saharjo, M.Agr as an Indonesian fire forensic expert at the Bogor Agricultural Institute, then also present Prof. Dr. Ir. Azwar Maas, M.Sc as Professor of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Gadjah Mada University. Meanwhile, together with the Madani Berkelanjutan Foundation, several civil society organizations were present, such as the Kaoem Telapak Association, Greenpeace Indonesia, and Kemitraan.

Get the presentation materials from the Madani Berkelanjutan Foundation in the Public Hearing (RDPU) of the Working Committee of Commission IV of the Indonesian House of Representatives regarding the Control and Action of Forest and Land Fires by downloading the attachments available below.

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