PETALING JAYA: Asean countries have raised their alert level of the transboundary haze risk to Level 2, compelling national bodies to brace for higher air pollution readings in the next few days.
Level 2 refers to the risk of transboundary haze in the region where escalating hotspot activities with moderate to dense smoke haze are observed over two days or more, with dry weather persisting and prevailing winds blowing smoke from the hotspots towards neighbouring Asean countries.
“Kalimantan, however, showed 353 hotspots, while 113 hotspots were detected in Sumatra,” Muhammad Helmi said in a statement yesterday. The DOE has upped its monitoring of air quality, enforcing laws on open burning especially in peat land, continuous implementing of peat-land burning prevention programmes along with citizen reporting and awareness.
“During the meeting in Vientiane, Laos, in August, Indonesia reported that hotspots have decreased by 96%, while the area of burning decreased by 94% as compared to 2019,” said the DOE.The DOE said all communications with regards to the transboundary haze would be done in a diplomatic manner.
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