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        "id": 1659498,
        "msgid": "this-years-rainfall-lower-than-in-the-last-30-years-1775620389",
        "date": "2026-04-06 21:11:00",
        "title": "This Year's Rainfall Lower Than in the Last 30 Years",
        "author": "Cahya  Mulyana",
        "source": "MEDIA_INDONESIA",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Environment",
        "summary": "The Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) has predicted that average rainfall during the 2026 dry season will be below normal compared to the past 30 years, with the season starting earlier in April or May and peaking in August. This drier-than-usual period, influenced by a weak to moderate El Ni\u00f1o phenomenon, raises concerns over forest and land fires, prompting collaborative preventive measures with the Ministry of Forestry, including peatland rewetting through weather modification operations. These forecasts underscore the need for proactive environmental management to mitigate potential ecological and economic impacts in Indonesia.",
        "content": "<p>The Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics\n(BMKG) predicts that the average rainfall during the 2026 dry season\nwill be lower than the average over the past 30 years. \u201cWith average\nrainfall below normal compared to the dry seasons over the past 30\nyears, conditions this year will be lower or below normal,\u201d said BMKG\nHead Teuku Faisal Fathani during a press conference on the coordination\nmeeting for forest and land fires in Jakarta on Monday (6\/4). BMKG also\npredicts that the dry season this year will start earlier and last\nlonger, beginning in April or May, peaking in August. \u201cThe dry season\nwill arrive faster and longer. We will enter the dry season starting in\nApril or May, peaking in August, then ending in September or early\nOctober,\u201d said Teuku Faisal Fathani. Meanwhile, BMKG is also monitoring\nthe El Ni\u00f1o phenomenon in Indonesia. \u201cThe El Ni\u00f1o we are monitoring is\ncurrently still weak to moderate,\u201d he said. The Ministry of Forestry is\ncollaborating with BMKG to prevent forest and land fires (karhutla)\nduring the dry season. One of the efforts is rewetting peatlands using\nBMKG\u2019s Weather Modification Operations (OMC). \u201cWe are carrying out\npreventive efforts, trying to do rewetting when we still have clouds\nthat we can seed, with seeding materials then causing rain that can\nmoisten peatlands so that the potential for forest and land fires can be\nsuppressed as much as possible,\u201d said Teuku Faisal Fathani. (Ant\/P-3)\nThe Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics\n(BMKG) predicts that Indonesia has the potential to experience a drier\ndry season in the second semester of 2026 along with the weak El Ni\u00f1o\nphenomenon.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/this-years-rainfall-lower-than-in-the-last-30-years-1775620389",
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