Amount of Loss caused by Land and Forest Fire, IDR 200,000,000,000,000 (Trillion)

Choirul Fuadi, Central Kalimantan, CIDISS – Hadi Prabowo, the Acting Governor Central Kalimantan, along with his team met in evaluation meeting of forest and land fire (karhutla) handling in Palangka Raya, Tuesday (24/11/2015).

Forest fires and land (karhutla) occurred during four months in Central Kalimantan and then central Kalimantan status of the second largest fire disaster of land and forest with a total of 547 thousand hectares. While ranking one is South Sumatera which area of 641 thousand hectares.

According to the head of the National disaster mitigation Agency (BNPB), Willem Rampangilei, like quote in Borneo news, Tuesday, (24/11/2015) revealed that the disaster in year of 2015 caused losses of IDR 200 trillion.

“This does not include IDR 200 trillion Funds for put of the fire. In BNPB data is IDR 500 billion for suppression only. Then the funds budgeted by the Indonesian Army, police and others,” said him.

In the evaluation meeting, the Acting Governor Kalteng, Hadi Prabowo, reveals the need to formulate standard operating procedures (SOP) handling the smoke in anticipation of facing the possibility of a similar disaster. “Special for SOP of smoke disaster has not owned yet in Kalteng. This resulted in a long discussion and Vertigo era status. District or city does not have a clear and definite plan to handling the disaster of fire just put in an unexpected funding on a Regional Budget, “said Hadi.