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        "msgid": "ulm-deploys-students-on-field-course-to-tackle-forest-and-land-fires-1788799959",
        "date": "2026-09-07 23:15:05",
        "title": "ULM Deploys Students on Field Course to Tackle Forest and Land Fires",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "Universitas Lambung Mangkurat has sent dozens of student groups into the field in Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan, to help combat forest and land fires. The students joined joint personnel from the regional police, military and disaster agency in extinguishing fires on peatland, and their findings will feed into a national seminar on the environment.",
        "content": "<p>Banjarbaru (ANTARA) - Universitas Lambung Mangkurat (ULM) has\ndeployed dozens of student groups to carry out field coursework in\ntackling forest and land fires (karhutla) in the Banjarbaru area of\nSouth Kalimantan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the students witnessed first-hand how joint personnel from the\nSouth Kalimantan Regional Police (Polda Kalsel), Korem 101\/Antasari and\nthe Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) carried out extinguishing\noperations on burned land,\u201d said Professor Rahmida Erliyani, the\nlecturer accompanying the students, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The site, located on Jalan Tambak Buluh in Landasan Ulin Timur\nsub-district, Landasan Ulin district, Banjarbaru, was where fire had\nburned a considerable area of land, and the students experienced for\nthemselves what it takes to put out the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Taking turns, the students held hoses to spray water onto pockets of\nfire on the peatland.<\/p>\n<p>The students then observed how an innovative surfactant liquid\nconcocted by the Forensic Laboratory Division (Bidlabfor) of Polda\nKalsel can cool peat burning beneath the ground surface.<\/p>\n<p>Rahmida hoped that by going directly into the field, the students\nwould gain a clearer view of the facts: that extinguishing burned land\nis extremely difficult, particularly on peat soil.<\/p>\n<p>From the field course, the students also conducted observations which\nwould later be set out in a report for the Introduction to Wetland\nEnvironments course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the students discover in the field can later become material\nfor a national seminar on environmental matters,\u201d added the professor\nfrom the Faculty of Law, who also heads the ULM Centre for Police\nStudies.<\/p>\n<p>The South Kalimantan Chief of Police, Commissioner General Dr\nRosyanto Yudha Hermawan, acknowledged that the students\u2019 presence was\nhighly positive for educational purposes, enabling them to act as agents\nconveying public awareness about the dangers of forest and land\nfires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for students to educate communities not to burn land,\nbecause the environmental impact is very severe, including the health\ndisaster of smoke haze,\u201d said the police chief.<\/p>\n<p>Yudha also expressed appreciation for the enthusiasm of ULM students\nand the wider academic community in their concern for tackling forest\nand land fires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also been greatly assisted by ULM\u2019s wetland environment\nexperts in working together to find the best methods for extinguishing\nfires on peat soil,\u201d he said.<\/p>",
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