Jakarta, Nov. 9 -- Indonesia's National Peatland and Mangrove Management Agency (BPGMN) is integrating cross-agency environmental data into its "Sagara" monitoring platform to serve as an early warning system against forest and land fires, officials said Monday.

BPGMN Deputy Head Maj. Gen. Sriyanto said the platform will unify previously fragmented data streams across ministries and state agencies, including predictive climate modeling from the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).

"In Sagara, we integrate all data, and there is a profile to encourage participation from all parties," Sriyanto told reporters in Jakarta.

He added that the platform will incorporate direct messaging capabilities via WhatsApp to allow citi...