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Indonesia's Environmental Affairs and Forestry Ministry or KLHK has deployed task force teams, as a precautionary measure against forest fires, especially in the Sumatra and Kalimantan Islands, during the upcoming dry season. As quoted by Antara News Agency, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Forestry Siti Nurbaya noted, that it remains the government’s priority to take precautionary measures, against the possibility of forest and land fires. Based on the analysis of the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the dry season is expected to peak during the June-July period, especially in Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, Central Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and East Kalimantan. Nurbaya cited President Joko Widodo as saying that despite the current COVID-19 pandemic, taking a major toll on multiple aspects of life, priority services should remain unhindered//Ant