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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.