Jakarta, Oct. 26 -- Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has deployed 15 aircraft to execute massive cloud-seeding operations across South Sumatra, Central Kalimantan, and South Kalimantan to extinguish active forest fires, officials announced Monday.

The fleet includes military Hercules and CN-295 transport aircraft dispersing dry ice and sodium chloride into cloud formations during a projected multi-day period of favorable atmospheric conditions.

"Weather modification operations are currently being carried out on a massive scale. This may be one of the largest operations of its kind ever conducted in Indonesia," said BMKG Head Teuku Faisal Fathani in Jakarta.

Fathani stated that nine aircraft are activel...