Forest and land fires that have occurred in Riau Province, Indonesia continues to expand to this day. factors of hot weather and strong winds affect the speed of fire propagating to other locations.

The team of the combined fire fighting task force struggled to extinguish the fire on the peat land. Firefighters find it difficult to extinguish fires because the burned land is on a peatland whose fire is in the depth of one to two meters on the ground.

From the records of the Riau Province Disaster Management Agency, there are 3,818 hectares of land that has been burned since 2019 to this day.

As a result, air quality in some cities in Riau Province declined. The Riau Health Service urges the public to use masks for activities outside the home.