Jakarta, Oct. 28 -- Indonesia has launched a large-scale weather modification operation involving 15 aircraft to execute massive cloud seeding across South Sumatra, Central Kalimantan, and South Kalimantan to induce widespread rainfall and extinguish active forest fires. The Indonesian Air Force said the operation generated rain in some areas of South Sumatra on October 26 as the government expanded weather modification activities in fire-prone areas. According to Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), Hercules and CN-295 military transport aircraft dispersed dry ice and sodium chloride into cloud formations during a projected multi-day period of favourable atmospheric conditions. BMKG Head Teuku Faisal Fathan...