{"id":94254,"date":"2026-10-19T16:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94254"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:19:07","slug":"indonesia-considers-expanding-dry-ice-trials-to-tackle-haze-after-fairly-effective-south-sumatra-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94254","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia considers expanding dry ice trials to tackle haze after &#8216;fairly effective&#8217; South Sumatra test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Indonesia deployed 2.4 tonnes of dry ice over South Sumatra province on Oct 15 and 16, National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) Disaster Data, Information and Communication Centre Acting Head Berton Panjaitan said on Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Visibility in Palembang, the capital of South Sumatra, has reached\u00a06,000m, said South Sumatra Governor Herman Deru separately on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Siswanto, the head of Palembang\u2019s Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport Meteorological Station, reported varying results, with visibility and air quality fluctuating during the operation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Visibility improved at times, but deteriorated again towards the evening, he said, adding that flight operations at the airport could serve as an indicator of the effectiveness of using dry ice.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIf several scheduled flights are not delayed or cancelled, we can regard that as one indicator of the effectiveness of dry ice,\u201d Siswanto said, as quoted by Bisnis.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The airport is one of the priority locations for dry ice seeding as haze has disrupted flight operations, local media reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/asia\/indonesia-haze-dry-ice-forest-fires-sumatra-palembang-6470801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia deployed 2.4 tonnes of dry ice over South Sumatra province on Oct 15 and 16, National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) Disaster Data, Information and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}