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00:05 Civil society organizations found forest and land fire rates in the area of the company's concession in West Kalimantan,
00:11 which is wider than the Ministry of Environment's findings.
00:14 For example, Greenpeace Indonesia found tens of thousands of hotspots
00:19 through satellite images during the August to September period.
00:23 Environmental surveillance researchers analyzed data of the Brin Fire Hotspot
00:28 with all levels of confidence.
00:30 The discovery through satellite images is reinforced by the discovery of burn area.
00:36 Greenpeace Indonesia campaigner Iqbal Damanik said
00:41 his agency had marked the spread of hotspots in 34 provinces during July 1 to September 3, 2023.
00:48 They found 126,146 hotspots that spread sporadically throughout the province.
00:55 The most hotspots are in West Kalimantan, which reached 37,967 points.
01:01 Iqbal said most of the hotspots appeared in the same location in previous years,
01:07 especially in the Gambut area that suffered damage.
01:10 This number is predicted to continue to increase,
01:12 considering that the land fire is still ongoing and the fire has not subsided.
01:16 The Madani Foundation also continues to issue a similar report to Greenpeace's findings.
01:22 The organization found 262,000 hectares of burn-indicative areas
01:27 in the period from January 1 to August 21, 2023.
01:31 This figure has exceeded the area of forests and burnt land
01:34 that was recorded by the Ministry of Environment last year,
01:37 which reached 204,000 hectares.
01:40 The Directorate General of Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry
01:46 has actually identified land fires in the area of this company's concession.
01:50 In fact, the Ministry of Environment has already registered the location of forest fires in four companies
01:55 in West Kalimantan on September 3.
01:57 The four companies are PT MTI Unit 1 Jelai, 1,151 hectares,
02:03 PT CIG, 267 hectares, PT SUM, 168 hectares, and PT FWL, 121 hectares.
02:11 Director General of Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry,
02:16 Rasyo Riddhusani, said his party is investigating the cause of land fires
02:21 in the area of the four companies' concession.
02:23 Rasyo stated that the sale should be the company's concern
02:27 because the company could be subject to administrative sanctions
02:30 in the form of freezing and receipt of permits until the data and fines are violated.
02:34 Forensic expert on land and forest fires at Bogor Research Institute,
02:39 Bambang Hero Saharjo, said he often found cases of
02:43 repeated fires in the company's concession area.
02:46 He suspected that land fires in the company's concession area were deliberately done
02:50 to save land acquisition costs.
02:52 Bambang also found other company motives.
02:55 He suspected that the company deliberately burned the land of the palm oil plantation
02:58 in order to claim insurance funds.
03:00 The way? The company burned the land that had just been planted with palm oil.
03:03 Then the company claimed insurance for the dead palm oil plantations.
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