2,179 Disaster Hit RI: 21 Missing Persons and 5.8 Millions Residents Refusing · Global Voices

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - National Disaster Reference Agency (BNPB) reported the development of hate in Indonesia that took place over 2026, from January to today, Tuesday (20 / 10 / 2026).

Task worker (Plt.) Head of Data, Information, and Communication of BNPB Hatred Berton Panitans in January to this day, listed 2,179 disasters in Indonesia, with details of 14 times the earthquake, the eruption of 4 times, forest fires and land 1,000 times, and flooding of 580 times.

"Of course there are more events like extreme weather 337 times, 122 times droughts, 108 landslides, and high tide or calibrated 14 times," said Berton in a press conference updating disaster in Indonesia, Tuesday (20 / 10 / 2026).

Berton continued the impact of the carhutla that occurred in Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Papua caused casualties of 422 people, 21 people were declared missing, 3.259 people were injured,

Furthermore, his side said that from about 1,024 hectares of burnt land, until Monday of 44,25 hectares of burnt land had been successfully extinguished.

"while the unextinguished 570.08 hectares. Of course we see here that the most unquenchable ones are in Central Kalimantan by 389.89 hectares, followed by South Sumatra by 108.5 hectares," lit Berton.

As for the current donor area for carhutla smoke comes from Central Kalimantan and Southern Sumatra. This is seen from the area of burnt land at most in Central Kalimantan that reached 452.49 hectares and in the southern Sumatra for 401.67 hectares.

"This is the truth that we keep narrowing down between the number that burns and the number that is extinguished, because in Central Kalimantan, even in Southern Sumatra, because the amount of land that burns is relatively high in Central Kalimantan, and then the amount that is extinguished in southern Sumatra is relatively higher than Central Kalimantan."

While other areas like West Kalimantan, Southern Kalimantan, Riau, and Jambi are relatively balanced between the number of land burned and put out. Karhutla's efforts in other provinces are continuing at this time.

Berton detailed some of the other areas affected by carhutla which is 97.77 hectares land on fire in East Kalimantan and lKlN region, 230 hectares land in the Central Jawatare District, 179.13 hectares in Maluku North, 31 Hectares in the National Park of the Lampung Way, 20 Hectares in the Mamuturi West District, 5 hectares in the Northern District, in the Northern Suru Suru, in the Northern East Sutaru, in Suru, in Suru, in Suru Suru, in Suru Bay 3 in Suru.