Burned Areas in Indonesia, Which Is Expected in 2025
Indonesia Predicted to Heat Up in 2025, These Are the Most ‘Burned’ Regions
Jakarta, Indonesia – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) projects that temperatures in Indonesia will increase, aka get hotter, in 2025. Check out the predictions.
BMKG Head Dwikorita Karnawati said the average monthly surface air temperature in Indonesia from January to December 2025 is expected to experience an anomalous temperature increase of between +0.3 to +0.6 °C.
The temperature increase is predicted to occur in the period from May to July 2025, with an average increase of around 0.4°C higher than normal conditions (period 1991-2020)
“So this is warmer than normal. Normal is the average temperature over the last 30 years,” said Dwikorita in the Climate Outlook 2025 Press Conference broadcast online on the BMKG YouTube channel, Monday (4/11).
“Areas that need to be watched out for experiencing high temperature anomalies include areas located in southern Sumatra, Java, NTB, NTT,” he continued.
Dwikorita explained that the prediction was a general condition in one year. However, according to her, weather conditions in Indonesia are influenced by various factors to the dynamics of the atmosphere that occurs.
“Weather conditions in Indonesia are also greatly influenced by various factors, not only the influence of the Pacific or Indian Ocean, and also the influence of the two continents, but also the influences of conditions at the equator. For example, there are equatorial waves, MJO, so the point is that this climate view is important as a reference for preparing plans for the next year,” he said.
Rising temperatures due to climate crisis
Rising temperatures due to climate crisis
On a separate occasion, Dwikorita revealed that various studies show that the increase in global temperature has reached 1.45 °C above the average of the pre-industrial period of 1850-1900. According to her, this has an impact on the acceleration of sea level rise which continues to rise from decade to decade.
The average global sea level rise was 2.1 mm per year between 1993 and 2002, and it is set to rise to 4.4 mm per year between 2013 and 2021, a doubling between those periods.
According to him, this reality is mostly caused by the melting of polar ice due to the melting of glaciers and sea ice layers due to global warming.
“It is certainly not an exaggeration if I call this situation something very serious and must also be responded to seriously,” Dwikorita said last September, citing the official BMKG website.
According to him, the climate crisis is happening globally, including Indonesia. Dwikorita, last March, had said that Indonesia was also affected by the climate crisis.
He said climate change encompasses various aspects. These include rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, rising sea levels, and their impacts on the environment and humans.
A real example of rising temperatures due to climate change is the melting of glaciers or tropical ice sheets in Puncak Jaya, Papua. The area of eternal snow cover at an altitude of 4,884 meters above sea level has shrunk by 98 percent, from 19.23 square kilometers in 1850 to only 0.23 square kilometers in April 2022.
Another evidence of climate change in Indonesia is the increasing temperature in Indonesia every day. According to him, the current world temperature is approaching the limit agreed upon in the Paris Agreement COP21 on December 12, 2015.
At that time, the whole world agreed to limit the increase in the global average temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius. But in fact, the increase in temperature is currently accelerating and has reached an increase of 1.45 degrees Celsius above the average temperature in the pre-industrial era.
According to BMKG records, the rate of temperature increase in Indonesia has reached 0.15 °C per decade.
Another evidence of the climate crisis, the agency said, is that many countries are threatened by drought in the coming decades.
