Jakarta, Oct. 20 -- Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) is tightening standard operating procedures for weather modification operations following public reports of solid dry ice falling on residential areas, officials said Tuesday.

The technical adjustments aim to ensure safety during cloud-seeding missions designed to dissipate severe haze caused by ongoing forest and land fires across Sumatra and Kalimantan.

"The tightened procedures involve installing special filters on the sprinkler hoppers and breaking the dry ice into finer particles to evaporate completely in the air before reaching the ground," said Berton Panjaitan, Acting Head of BNPB's Disaster Data, Information, and Communication Center.

Under the procedu...