Jakarta, Oct. 17 -- Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) used 2.4 tons of dry ice in a two-day weather modification operation on Oct. 15-16 to combat forest fire haze in South Sumatra, an agency official said on Saturday.

Berton Panjaitan, acting head of BNPB's Disaster Data, Information and Communication Center, said the operation followed flight disruptions at Palembang's Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport and health effects from dense haze.

BNPB aircraft flew three sorties totaling seven hours and three minutes, departing from Raden Inten II Airport in Bandar Lampung, Lampung Province.

The morning sortie seeded 800 kilograms of dry ice around Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport in Palembang.

Data from the Meteoro...