🔴BREAKING NEWS - Pascahujan 3 Hari, Kabut Asap Karhutla Menipis di Kalimantan

Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan

Three days of moderate to heavy rain had noticeably reduced the haze after months of fires and smoke. Air quality had improved but remained unhealthy. Reports cited PM2.5 readings of 90 micrograms per cubic metre in an opening update and 62 in the reporter’s later account. No new hotspots had been recorded from the previous night through the day of the report.

Rain had not fully extinguished fires beneath the peat. Smoke was still emerging from burned peatland, and firefighters were injecting or spraying water into the soil to reach underground embers. The reported burned area was 1,463 hectares across 980 incidents.

The city’s health department had recorded more than 12,000 acute respiratory infection (ISPA) cases. Palangkaraya was expanding access to care through health centres and four mobile medical units equipped with oxygen. Students had been undertaking distance learning for more than two months; with the haze easing, there had been no new warning about continuing it.

A local BMKG forecast expected rain over the following week, although the day’s forecast was cloudy with no rain expected. A reporter said weather-modification efforts had been supported by cloud formations that made operations more likely to succeed.

South Kalimantan

Rain had also reduced haze and hotspots. In Banjarbaru, air quality had briefly reached an unhealthy PM2.5 level of 109 before falling to 55 micrograms per cubic metre, in the moderate range. No hotspots were detected in the province by 9 a.m. on the day reported. Provincial data cited 28,000 hectares burned, with about 40 hectares still emitting smoke.

Drought and disrupted supply had pushed up food prices in Banjar and Banjarbaru. Beef was reported at around Rp155,000 per kilogram wholesale and above Rp170,000 at retail. Chili prices had risen from roughly Rp50,000–60,000 to around Rp85,000–90,000 per kilogram. Banjarbaru planned to hold low-cost markets in several districts.

Banjarbaru recorded more than 1,000 ISPA cases in the latest weekly data available to the reporter. Schools had generally returned to in-person classes, though some adjusted start times to avoid the worst morning conditions.

Presenters and Contributors

• Renata, presenter
• Unnamed male co-presenter
• Kurnia Tarigan, Kompas TV correspondent in Palangkaraya
• Nabila Ceva/Sefa, Kompas TV correspondent in Banjarbaru
• Arpawi, cameraman