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The police in Riau, Indonesian province that is second-closest to Singapore, have extended its add to emergency status by another month even as four airports in Sumatra and Kalimantan stayed shut over the weekend.

            Beside that, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said the government was preparing to hold an international conference on peatland management with the aim of preventing the burning of dry peat, which had caused the choking add in the region.

            Regional Disaster Management Agency ( BPBD ) in the Riau capital of Pekanbaru decided to extend the emergency as there are still hot spots in next door South Sumatra province, when significant rainfall has yet to take place in Riau itself.

            “All members of the forest firefighting team have agreed that the emergency status will be extended by 30 days to Nov 30,” said BPBD Riau chairman Edward Sanger last Saturday, as reported by the Tempo news website.

            He said the judgment was made during a meeting on Friday.

            The emergency status, which was set to expire on Nov 1, extended as officials took into account the possibility of new hot spots emerging in Riau forests, after watching the continuing conflagration in South Sumatra and the paltry rainfall seen in Riau so far.

            Riau province first declared a haze emergency in the middle of September when forest fires in the province and the neighbouring provinces of Jambi and South Sumatra became worse.

            “We coordinated with the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency before extending the emergency status,” Mr. Edward said.

            He said members of the BPBD team will increase their efforts to prevent forest fires during the 30 days of the extended emergency period. The Indonesian province closest to Singapore is the Riau Islands province, which includes Batam and Bintan.

            Meanwhile, Indonesian Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan said his ministry maintained the closure of two airports in Sumatra and two in Kalimantan due to the thick smoke from the forest fires last Saturday. The airports are located in the South Sumatra and Jambi provinces and in South Kalimantan province, Mr Jonan said in Yogyakarta last Saturday. He had said recently that the haze had forced the closure of between 23 and 35 airports across the country.

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Focus fire prevention efforts in a handful of subdistricts within four districts in Riau Province

 

Indonesia is divisibled into 34 provinces, there are districts, and smaller subdistricts. By overlaying NASA fire watchful with Indonesian provincial, district and sub-district boundes, we can see that the Province of Riau accounts for over half of all fire watchful in Indonesia (58 %) and over four fifths (81 %) of all fire watchful across of Sumatra more 12 months

 

Reveal deeper into the data, we can see in Riau Province only a few districts not take effect by fire. 4 districts in Riau Province—Bengkalis, Rokan Hilir, Pelalawan and Siak—were the location of 52 % of fire watchful across the all of Indonesia over the past year. Within these 4 districts, Global Forest Watch pinpoints a handful of even smaller sub-districts as the locations for the largest numbers of fire watchful, with Bukit Batu, Tanah Putih, Kandis, and Medang Kampai topside the list.

This is an important discovery that, because it exhibit that if Indonesian officials focused fire prevention efforts and resources in Riau. as well as research and management in a small number of Riau subdistricts, they could greatly decrease overall fire and haze risk.

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 MUARA TAKUS TEMPLE

Candi Muara Takus is a Buddhist temple located in Riau, Indonesia. Muara Takus temple located in the village of precisely Barelang, region XIII Koto Kampar Regency or the distance is about 135 kilometers from the city of Pekanbaru, Riau. The distance among this temple in the village center Barelang around 2.5 miles and not too far from the side of the Kampar River Right. This temple be hemmed in by a wall measuring 74 x 74 meters outside the walls there are also arealnya sized ground 1.5 x 1.5 kilometers surrounding this complex to Kampar Kanan river.

In this temple there are also old temple buildings, temples and Mahligai Youngest Stupa and Palangka. Muara Takus temple building material composed of sandstone, river rock and brick. According to native inhabitants, bricks for this building built in the village Pongkai, a village located on the downstream side of the temple area. Former mining land for the bricks until now considered as a highly respected populations. To bring bricks to the temple, done in relay from hand to hand. This story must be true although not yet give the impression that Muara Takus temple building was the work together and do by the crowds.

Besides from the Old Temple, Temple Puisne, and Palangka Mahligai Stupa, in the temple block was also found that mound kiln is otherwised as human bones. Outside that area there are also temple is made of brick, which has not been built types of buildings.