Inp.polri.go.id - Jakarta. The Indonesian National Police (INP) has prepared comprehensive mitigation strategies and deployed thousands of personnel to anticipate the impacts of El Nino, extreme weather, and forest and land fires during the peak dry season.
The measures were detailed during a consolidation meeting co-chaired by INP Deputy Chief Commissioner General Dedi Prasetyo and Deputy Minister of Forestry Rohmat Marzuki at the INP Headquarters in Jakarta.
Head of the Public Relations Division for the INP Inspector General Johnny Eddizon Isir said that the initiative directly follows directives from President Prabowo Subianto to strengthen early mitigation frameworks, preventing forest fires and minimizing climate impact on local communities.
"All regional ranks have mobilized through integrated patrols, strengthened early detection, personnel readiness, technology integration, and close collaboration with ministries, agencies, regional governments, the Indonesian Military (TNI), and relevant stakeholders," he said.
Pre-disaster mitigation steps involve updating maps of fire-prone regions, ground-checking hotspot data, strengthening early warning systems, and executing joint patrols alongside TNI, Forestry Ministry’s Manggala Agni units, and local residents. Bhabinkamtibmas community policing officers and Babbinsa village military soldiers are actively logging field conditions, including water source availability, drought vulnerabilities, agricultural land status, and adaptive social aid requirements.
Operations are monitored in real time via integrated command centers utilizing drones, monitoring-post CCTV networks, and fire tracking systems. On the ground, the INP has placed tens of thousands of Sabhara and Mobile Brigade (Brimob) officers on alert with a regional grouping system to ensure rapid deployment across regional police jurisdictions.
Addressing law enforcement, the INP continues strict monitoring against illegal land burning practices. Up to mid-2026, authorities recorded over one hundred investigations and named more than one hundred individual suspects, emphasizing that legal action extends beyond field perpetrators to individuals, financiers, and corporations ordering or benefiting from illegal land clearing.
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