Jakarta, Nov. 10 -- Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency has identified three companies suspected of deliberately burning land in South Papua, its chief, Lt. Gen. Kristomei Sianturi, said.

"We have identified three companies and submitted their data to the local government," Kristomei told a news conference at the Coordinating Ministry for Political and Security Affairs in Jakarta on Monday.

He said the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) identified the companies by tracking fire hotspots through its monitoring application.

The application detected several hotspots believed to have caused forest and land fires. BNPB subsequently conducted further investigations and obtained the names of the three companies, he said.

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