{"id":15189567,"date":"2026-08-22T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/indonesia-air-force-weather-modification-planes-borneo-wildfires-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T15:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:51:06","slug":"indonesia-air-force-weather-modification-planes-borneo-wildfires-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/indonesia-air-force-weather-modification-planes-borneo-wildfires-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia Sends More Planes to Seed the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>As choking smoke spreads over Borneo, Indonesia is fighting fire with the weather itself. On Aug. 21, 2026, five more Indonesian Air Force aircraft lifted off from Abdulrachman Saleh Air Base in Malang, bound for the burning provinces of West and East Kalimantan. Their payload was not bombs or bullets, but salt and silver iodide, chemicals meant to squeeze rain out of the sky.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The five planes joined a remarkable aerial armada: 52 aircraft now flying against the flames across six provinces of Sumatra and Kalimantan. It is one of the largest firefighting air operations Indonesia has ever mounted, and much of it is aimed not at the fires directly, but at the clouds above them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;border-radius:8px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px\">Quick Facts: Indonesia&rsquo;s Fire-Fighting Air Fleet<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.8\"><li><strong>New deployment:<\/strong> Five TNI AU aircraft, Aug. 21, 2026<\/li><li><strong>Total fleet:<\/strong> 52 aircraft across six provinces<\/li><li><strong>Split:<\/strong> 30 in Kalimantan, 22 in Sumatra<\/li><li><strong>Missions:<\/strong> Patrol, weather modification and water bombing<\/li><li><strong>Method:<\/strong> Cloud seeding with silver iodide and salt<\/li><li><strong>Driver:<\/strong> A severe, El Ni&ntilde;o-fuelled fire season<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A 52-aircraft campaign against fire<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The reinforcements were announced by Cabinet Secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya, who said the new aircraft would bolster the fleet already operated by the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB). More planes are on standby at Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in Jakarta, ready to move as conditions shift.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Five TNI AU aircraft have been deployed to reinforce the 30 planes belonging to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) already operating across three affected provinces in Kalimantan.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Teddy Indra Wijaya<\/strong> &mdash; Cabinet Secretary of Indonesia<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Of the 52 aircraft in the fight, 30 are working over Kalimantan and 22 over Sumatra, a mix of fixed-wing planes and helicopters flying patrol, water-bombing and cloud-seeding sorties. On the days around the new deployment, military and BNPB crews ran joint water-bombing runs against the worst hotspots.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1731344503  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/indonesia-weather-modification-cloud-seeding-aircraft.jpg\" alt=\"Indonesian weather modification aircraft\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A cloud-seeding aircraft of the type used in Indonesia&rsquo;s weather-modification operations. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Making it rain<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Cloud seeding works by dispersing tiny particles, usually silver iodide or salt, into promising clouds. The particles mimic natural ice crystals, giving water vapour something to condense around until droplets grow heavy enough to fall as rain. It is rarely used against wildfires anywhere in the world, but Indonesia has embraced it: the country ran 252 cloud-seeding operations between 2021 and August 2026, up from just 85 in the entire preceding decade, according to the BMKG weather agency.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The results are measured in millions of cubic metres of water. In West Kalimantan, seeding flights between Aug. 13 and 17 flew nine sorties and were credited with an estimated 10.9 million cubic metres of rainfall; in Central Kalimantan, earlier operations added several million more. Against a fire season that has already burned well over 100,000 hectares, every extra downpour counts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/46toJUeQINY\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why it matters<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Indonesia&rsquo;s fires are not only a domestic emergency. The haze they generate drifts across borders into Malaysia and Singapore, shutting schools and grounding flights, and the smoke is a serious public-health hazard for millions. Turning transport planes into rainmakers is an unusual, imperfect tool, but for a nation ringed by fire and smoke, it is one more way to fight back from the air.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: Independent Observer (ObserverID), ANTARA News, AFP, BMKG.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/france-a400m-atlas-first-firefighting-drop-gironde-2026\/\">France&rsquo;s Biggest Airlifter Turns Water Bomber<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/beriev-be-200-amphibious-water-bomber\/\">Be-200 Altair, Russia&rsquo;s Amphibious Water Bomber<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As choking smoke spreads over Borneo, Indonesia is fighting fire with the weather itself. 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