Indonesian Police Launch App to Control Forest, Land Fire
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15 September 2021 18:07 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Police have launched the 'Aplikasi Sistem Analisa Pengendalian' or Control Analysis System Application. Abbreviated as ASAP, meaning smoke, the app allows officers to quickly identify hotspots to minimize forest and land fires.
The Indonesian National Police chief, Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo, said that the ASAP app will integrate with other applications used for mitigating forest and land fires that are owned by a number of ministries or agencies, SOEs and the regional police.
"The app combines all the potential that exists in the ministries [and] SOEs' [systems], for us to integrate into one monitoring system for the prevention and control of forest and land fires more quickly," Sigit said in South Jakarta on Wednesday, September 15.
This year so far, Sigit said, there have been land and forest fires in 800 points. The total area of burned land is 105,791 hectares.
The first stage in implementing the national digital ASAP technology is the installation of surveillance cameras or CCTV at 28 points in 10 vulnerable areas, including Aceh, Jambi, and Riau.
Sigit said that by December this year 40 more CCTV will be installed in more areas including Southeast Sulawesi and Papua.
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