WIRE — JAKARTA, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia recorded more than 5,000 wildfire hotspots as of mid-July 2026, with the cumulative increase outpacing previous El Nino years, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said Thursday. Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan, the agency's deputy for climatology, said the number of hotspots recorded since January had risen faster than during the El Nino events of 2015, 2019 and 2023
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