Pemanfaaan Teknologi Modifikasi Cuaca Untuk Penanggulangan Bencana Asap Kebakaran Lahan dan Hutan

Abstract

Weather Modification Technology has been frequently applied for the purpose of mitigating disasters caused by climatic and weather factors. One example is the smoke disaster caused by forest fire that almost happened annually in Indonesia, particularly in Sumatra and Kalimantan, when the dry season comes. Efforts to forest fire fighting by utilizing TMC regarded as one of the most effective effort because it can directly extinguish the flames as the cause of the appearance of smog. By regulation, the role of the TMC in the context of disaster mitigation forest fires smoke have been contained in Presidential Decree No.16 of 2011, about Improved Control of Forest Fires. This paper is descriptive in order to give an explanation about the use of TMC for disaster management of forest fire smoke.