{"id":23028,"date":"2026-07-10T19:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jakarta-landfill-fire-put-out-after-burning-for-more-than-a-week\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:19:29","slug":"jakarta-landfill-fire-put-out-after-burning-for-more-than-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jakarta-landfill-fire-put-out-after-burning-for-more-than-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Jakarta landfill fire put out after burning for more than a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>JAKARTA, July 10 &mdash; A landfill fire on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, has been put out after burning for more than a week as evacuees returned home, a disaster agency spokesman said today.<\/p>\n<p>The Jatiwaringin landfill in the Tangerang district west of Jakarta caught fire on June 30, prompting the local government to declare a two-week emergency.<\/p>\n<p>More than 230 people earlier evacuated the area and 331 cases of acute respiratory syndrome were reported, with no hospitalisations, according to the local disaster mitigation agency.<\/p>\n<p>The fire &mdash; which burned an area at the landfill measuring around 15 hectares (37 acres) &mdash; had been completely extinguished by yesterday evening, National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Abdul Muhari said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were carrying out an &ldquo;intensive&rdquo; cooling-down phase to douse the site, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The joint team&hellip; remains on full alert to accelerate total wetting&rdquo; of the burned area, Abdul said, adding that all of the evacuees had returned to their homes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The haze from the fire as well as the water bombing by helicopters did not disrupt operations at the nearby Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Environment ministry official Rizal Irawan said last week that authorities will investigate the cause of the fire, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia&rsquo;s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) warned that the country&rsquo;s dry season will be more intense and prolonged than average &mdash; in part due to the El Nino weather pattern heightening risks of wildfires and droughts. &mdash; AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Jakarta landfill fire put out after burning for more than a week<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA, July 10 &mdash; A landfill fire on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, has been put out after burning for more than a week as evacuees returned home, a disaster agency spokesman said today. The Jatiwaringin landfill in the Tangerang district west of Jakarta caught fire on June 30, prompting the local government&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jakarta-landfill-fire-put-out-after-burning-for-more-than-a-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Jakarta landfill fire put out after burning for more than a week&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}