Jakarta, Oct. 20 -- Emergency response teams in Indonesia have extinguished over 454 hectares of burned land across six priority provinces on Sumatra and Kalimantan islands, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said Tuesday.

Ground crews and joint task force personnel are continuing firefighting and cooling operations across an additional 570 hectares of affected land to reach the total target area of 1,024 hectares.

"BNPB, together with relevant ministries and institutions, the military, the police, and local governments, continues to intensify the deployment of personnel and resources to eradicate remaining hotspots in these areas," said Berton Panjaitan, Acting Head of BNPB's Disaster Data, Information, and Communication Ce...