| Forestry ministry extends contract to use air police's choppers JAKARTA (Antara): The Forestry Ministry has extendedits contract with the Air Police for the use of helicopters to deal with forest fires this year. The two agreed to extend the contract which expired on July 4, the ministry's director general of forest protection and nature conservation, Arman Malolongan, said Wednesday. The ministry was operating two helicopters to detect hot spots, he said. Quoting the latest report, he said fire was ravaging 15 hectares of plantation owned by PT Siak Raya in Riau province. "I have instructed (my subordinates) to look into the fire. The management of the company must be held responsible for the fire," he said. The Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) has reported an increase in the number of forest fires in Simatra in the past week. The agency's head of data and information in Polonia, Firman, said that basedon images from the Satellite National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 254 fires were seen in Sumatra on Monday, compared to 141 a day earlier.(***)>thejakartapost.com | 
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