Climate modification will probably be carried out to forestall excessive drought that would doubtlessly set off forest fires in some areas, the minister mentioned.
Jakarta (ANTARA) – Coordinating Minister for Political, Authorized, and Safety Affairs, Hadi Tjahjanto, has requested the chief of Air Power Workers (KSAU), Marshal Mohamad Tonny Harjono, to organize the mandatory protection tools for finishing up climate modification.
“The Java and East Nusa Tenggara Islands will proceed to expertise the dry season adopted by La Nina till September. La Nina will not be completed but, so the Air Power wants to instantly put together the protection tools for climate modification,” the minister mentioned at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Power Base right here on Friday.
He defined that the protection tools that will have to be deployed are airplanes belonging to the Air Power which were modified with a climate management system.
Climate modification will probably be carried out to forestall excessive drought that would doubtlessly set off forest fires in some areas, the minister mentioned.
He added that it might additionally scale back excessively heavy rainfall.
Nonetheless, he didn’t present additional particulars on the instruments and the variety of plane that will be deployed to change the climate.
He expressed the hope that the hassle would immediately decrease pure catastrophe impacts because of climate dynamics.
Climate modification entails spreading salt in massive portions within the air.
The Indonesian Air Power additionally utilized this expertise in early 2023. On the time, it used the CN-295 plane from the Climate Modification Expertise Submit at Adisoemarmo Air Power Base, Solo, Central Java, to unfold 13,530 kilograms of salt.
On a separate event, chairperson of the Folks’s Consultative Meeting (MPR), Bambang Soesatyo, requested the Nationwide Catastrophe Mitigation Company (BNPB) to be prepared to supply help to East Nusa Tenggara province.
The area has a excessive potential to expertise five-meter excessive waves till April 8, 2024, as forecast by the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Company (BMKG).
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Translator: Walda M, Kenzu
Editor: Arie Novarina
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