All schools in five areas closed by the Ministry of Education Malaysia. Because the index of air pollution is getting worse because of the forest fires in Indonesia.
The five areas are Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Selangor State, the State of Melaka, and the state of the country Nine. The Ministry of Education confirms all schools in the area closed from 15th September. Related IPU (Air Pollution Index) of close to 200.
Previous education minister, Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid claimed the school would be closed if the IPU approach the level of 200.
Even in Singapore IPU reached 222 on Monday, 14 September. This is due to the smoke of forest fires in Indonesia.
Air quality in the city of Pekanbaru and Palembang are included in the category of dangerous. The number of hotspots in Sumatra increased by nearly 1,143 hotspots.
Forest Fire haze in Sumatra, Malaysia and Singapore Affected Cause Air Pollution
About 1,500 of the 6,000 hectares of peatland in Ogan Ogan Ilir (OKI) and Ogan Ilir South Sumatra extinguished by members of the TNI and the Police Mobile Brigade South Sumatra. This outage successfully carried out for 4 days.
This information is submitted by the Task Force Dansub Land and Forest Fire Control territories Ogan Ogan Ilir and Ogan Ilir and Dandim 0402 OIC / Ogan Ilir Lt. Sandra at the Kav Dwi Irbaya location peat fires Tanjung district of Tanjung Lubuk Beringin OIC, on Monday, 14.09.
According to Lt. Col. Dwi Irbaya Sandra major problem in the process of extinction is limited water resources at the fire location.
Although sometimes there is a source of water but few in number. Not infrequently water sources located far from the hotspots. Besides water, the equipment is also inadequate. For example there is only one machine with a water pump hose length is limited in Tanjung Beringin. Minimal equipment does not make TNI (The Indonesian National Armed Forces) members discouraged to extinguish the fire from spreading. Lt. Col. Dwi ask growers to deepen existing channel by means of using the excavator dredge. So that water to flush out the fire in the burning land.