OFFICIAL PORTAL
PRIME MINISTER'S DEPARTMENT
NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT AGENCY
PRIME MINISTER'S DEPARTMENT
NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT AGENCY
GEORGE TOWN – Sesi persekolahan di seluruh Pulau Pinang berjalan seperti biasa esok, susulan berlaku penurunan bacaan Indeks Pencemaran Udara (IPU) di beberapa kawasan sehingga pukul 7 malam tadi.
Pengarah Pendidikan Negeri, Mohammad Dziauddin Mat Saad berkata, berdasarkan kemas kini, berlaku penurunan satu mata bacaan IPU dalam tempoh sejam di dua stesen iaitu Minden dan Balik Pulau.
Bagaimanapun, beliau berkata, aktiviti luar bilik darjah tidak dibenarkan buat masa ini sebagai langkah berjaga-jaga terhadap keadaan jerebu.
“Persekolahan berjalan seperti biasa, namun tiada aktiviti luar bilik darjah buat masa sekarang. JPN akan terus memantau perkembangan semasa menerusi Bilik Gerakan JPN,” katanya di sini.
Menurut beliau, pihaknya turut mendapatkan khidmat nasihat Kementerian Kesihatan bagi membimbing pihak sekolah mengenai langkah penjagaan kesihatan sepanjang keadaan cuaca berjerebu.
Tambahnya, pemantauan akan diteruskan dari semasa ke semasa bagi memastikan keselamatan dan kesihatan warga sekolah sentiasa diberi keutamaan.
Terdahulu, media melaporkan keputusan sama ada mahu melaksanakan Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran di Rumah (PdPR) atau menangguhkan aktiviti luar bilik darjah bagi sekolah-sekolah tertentu di Pulau Pinang akan diputuskan berdasarkan trend bacaan IPU pada pukul 6 petang, hari ini.
Dziauddin dilaporkan berrkata, pihaknya sejak 13 Ogos lalu lagi memantau rapi bacaan IPU setiap dua jam menerusi ‘War Room’ Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Pulau Pinang. -KOSMO! ONLINE
KUALA TERENGGANU – Jerebu yang melanda hampir keseluruhan Semenanjung Malaysia termasuk Pantai Timur berpotensi menghampiri paras bacaan Indeks Pencemaran Udara (IPU) 200 dan dijangka berlarutan sehingga esok.
Pakar Kualiti Udara Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Prof. Madya Dr. Azman Azid berkata, pola pergerakan udara (di Semenanjung Malaysia) ketika ini membawa masuk jerebu dari Sumatera, Indonesia hingga ke Pantai Timur.
“Keadaan jerebu dijangka berterusan sehingga Jumaat ini (esok) berikutan kehadiran jisim udara tercemar,” katanya ketika dihubungi Kosmo! di sini semalam.
Menurut Azman, situasi jerebu terutama di Pantai Timur diburukkan lagi oleh pergerakan angin yang lemah di sekitar Laut China Selatan.
Tambahnya, setakat ini kawasan yang menunjukkan kepekatan pencemar sa-ngat tinggi dilihat semakin menghampiri Pantai Timur.
“Peningkatan bacaan IPU kebanyakan kawasan di Semenanjung Malaysia termasuk Terengganu ketika ini banyak disebabkan jerebu rentas sempadan.
“Bagaimanapun, faktor tempatan seperti aktiviti perindustrian turut berpotensi menyumbang kepada peningkatan kepekatan partikel halus PM2.5,” katanya.
Begitupun, Azman menegaskan tahap bacaan IPU sama ada meningkat atau menurun sepanjang tempoh tersebut masih bergantung kepada pergerakan angin dan keadaan cuaca semasa.
Beliau menjelaskan angin yang bergerak lebih laju serta hujan boleh membantu mengurangkan kepekatan pencemar di udara.
“Sebaliknya, sekiranya jisim udara tercemar terus bergerak ke arah kawasan ini dalam keadaan tiupan angin yang perlahan, bacaan IPU berpotensi terus meningkat dan kemungkinan akan menghampiri paras 200.
“Udara sentiasa bergerak dan tidak berada di satu kawasan sahaja. Setiap kali arah angin berubah, kawasan yang menerima kesan pencemar juga boleh beralih,” katanya.
Dalam perkembangan sama, Azman menasihatkan orang ramai terutama golongan kanak-kanak, warga emas dan individu yang mempunyai masalah pernafasan dinasihatkan mengurangkan aktiviti luar pada masa ini.
Beliau menjelaskan, partikel PM2.5 yang sangat halus boleh memasuki sistem pernafasan dan meningkatkan risiko masalah kesihatan berkaitan respiratori sekiranya seseorang terdedah dalam tempoh tertentu jika berada di kawasan luar rumah.
KUALA LUMPUR: Sebanyak 28 kawasan di seluruh negara merekodkan Indeks Pencemaran Udara (IPU) pada tahap tidak sihat dengan bacaan melebihi 100 setakat jam 8 pagi tadi.
Semakan menerusi laman sesawang Sistem Indeks Pencemaran Udara (APIMS), Jabatan Alam Sekitar (JAS) merekodkan IPU tertinggi di kawasan Tasek Ipoh, Perak dengan bacaan 181.
Sementara itu, Seri Manjung, Perak merekodkan bacaan kedua tertinggi iaitu 178, diikuti Johan Setia, Selangor (161), Sungai Petani, Kedah dan Pegoh Ipoh, Perak masing-masing dengan bacaan 159.
Turut merekodkan bacaan tidak sihat ialah Cheras dan Batu Muda, Kuala Lumpur masing-masing 158 dan 157, Putrajaya dan Nilai, Sembilan masing-masing 158, Minden, Pulau Pinang dan Taiping, Perak (157) serta Seberang Jaya, Pulau Pinang (155).
Bacaan IPU di Tanjung Malim, Perak dan Shah Alam, Selangor masing-masing 155, manakala Seberang Perai, Pulau Pinang, Seremban, Negeri Sembilan dan Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu masing-masing mencatatkan bacaan 153.
Selain itu, Balik Pulau, Pulau Pinang dan Petaling Jaya, Selangor masing-masing mencatatkan bacaan 151, diikuti Banting, Selangor; Bukit Rambai, Melaka; Batu Pahat, Johor serta Jerantut, Pahang yang turut merekodkan bacaan sama.
Bandaraya Melaka mencatatkan IPU 149, manakala Kulim Hi-Tech, Kedah (134), Kluang, Johor (129), Alor Gajah, Melaka (121) dan Klang, Selangor (108).
Dalam pada itu, sebanyak 31 kawasan merekodkan IPU pada tahap sederhana, dengan bacaan antara 51 hingga 100.
Antara kawasan berkenaan ialah Besut, Terengganu dan Tanah Merah, Kelantan yang masing-masing mencatatkan bacaan 99, diikuti Segamat, Johor (97), Temerloh, Pahang (96), Kemaman, Terengganu (95) dan Kota Bharu, Kelantan (95).
Indera Mahkota Kuantan, Pahang merekodkan bacaan IPU 94, Paka, Terengganu (93), Balok Baru Kuantan, Pahang (91), Kuching, Sarawak (90) dan Larkin, Johor (88).
Kawasan lain termasuk Alor Setar, Kedah (86), IPD Serian, Sarawak (86), Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan (85), Pasir Gudang, Johor (84), Rompin, Pahang (82), Kangar, Perlis (73), Samarahan, Sarawak (72), Kota Tinggi, Johor (70) dan Langkawi, Kedah (69).
Sri Aman, Sarawak merekodkan bacaan 66, diikuti Pengerang, Johor (65), Bintulu dan Sibu, Sarawak masing-masing 64, Tawau, Sabah (61), Samalaju, Sarawak (58), ILP Miri dan Miri masing-masing 54 serta Limbang, Sarawak (51).
Kuala Selangor, Selangor dan Tangkak, Johor pula masing-masing mencatatkan bacaan IPU 100.
Sementara itu, sembilan kawasan merekodkan bacaan pada tahap baik, iaitu Kimanis, Sabah 50 diikuti Labuan, Sarikei, Sarawak (47), Mukah, Sarawak (44), Keningau, Sabah dan Kapit, Sarawak (41), Sandakan, Sabah (40), Politeknik Kota Kinabalu, Sabah (34) serta Kota Kinabalu, Sabah (22).
‘Breathing toxin every day’: Indonesians choked by haze feel helpless as smoke drifts into Malaysia and wider SE Asia
- Admin UKK
- Berita
PONTIANAK, Sept 16 — Struggling to breathe through the acrid haze emanating from wildfires on Indonesia’s Borneo island, residents told AFP today they feared for their health but had little to do but wait out the foul-smelling hazard.
Indonesia, which shares Borneo with Malaysia and Brunei, is grappling with forest fires that have ravaged swathes of the island, partly caused by the El Nino climate phenomenon that has also affected other countries in South-east Asia and beyond.
In Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan province, the thick, yellow smoke was so intense that it had paralysed the international airport over the weekend.
“My eyes sting, my head hurts. Over the past week it’s been getting worse,” resident Anggita Putri told AFP.
“While working, my chest feels tight, my head dizzy, my eyes burning. Even with this unhealthy air, we still must work,” she said.
The air quality index for Pontianak briefly exceeded 1,100 over the weekend, Anggita said — nearly four times the hazardous limit.
“I leave my child at home, so of course I have worries that go beyond just my own health. I’m also concerned about my child’s condition,” said the 28-year-old, who has a three-year-old son.
“The situation is quite bad. I’m worried about the children’s health. Even as an adult, I feel my head aching and dizzy because of the smoky air,” she told AFP.
“But parents still must work, so the children are forced to keep going to daycare, where they remain exposed to the smoke that has already started to enter the house.”
The health ministry said last week that more than 113,000 cases of upper respiratory tract infections had been recorded across seven provinces since the fires began to rage early this year.
Brief rainfall yesterday, which some residents had hoped could alleviate the risk, did little to help and only intensified the thick smoke, Djunita said.
‘Surrounded by smoke’
Local authorities said they were intensifying efforts to bring the haze under control, including by water bombing and cloud seeding.
Indonesia regularly battles wildfires during the dry season, which typically runs from July to October, but the blazes this year have been particularly bad in part because the powerful El Nino — expected to be the strongest since comparable records began four decades ago.
Experts also blame climate change, decades of forest degradation and slash-and-burn land clearing practices that have changed the naturally fire-resistant landscape.
From Borneo, the haze has also spread to neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia.
The Indonesian government has said that between January and July, more than 202,000 hectares of land burned across the country.
The Nusantara Atlas project put that figure close to 300,000 for the same period, and last week estimated the total area affected, including August, was nearly 896,000 hectares.
For many residents on Borneo, the haze has not only affected their health but also disrupted their livelihood.
“My house is surrounded by smoke... For more than a month, I haven’t opened the windows,” said snack seller Desia, who like many Indonesians only has one name.
She told AFP she had stopped working two weeks ago because she could no longer spend much time outside.
“It’s like we’re breathing toxin every day,” she said.
Desia’s two children, aged 10 and 11, have not gone to school in over a month, spending most of their time in the only room in the house that has an air purifier.
“Right now, I just hope for rain,” she said. “I’ve stopped hoping for anything from the government.” — AFP
PUTRAJAYA, Sept 16 — The Selangor government will review follow-up measures to address the deteriorating haze situation, said Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari.
He said the matter would be discussed in detail, based on reports from all relevant parties, at the Selangor State Executive Council meeting scheduled for Friday.
“This Friday we have an exco meeting. We will carefully discuss the follow-up measures, because after it (haze) cleared a bit on Sunday, the situation worsened again, especially yesterday and today. We will see on Friday according to reports from all parties,” he said.
He said this to reporters after officiating the Festival Turath Islami Malaysia 2026, at Masjid Putra here today, which was held in conjunction with the Festival Turath Islami Malaysia 2026.
Amirudin said the state government also needs to obtain information from the State Health Department and related agencies before determining the appropriate measures.
“Appropriate measures include trying to assist at school and supervising our children while they study. This is because they spend a considerable amount of time at school, and we need to limit outdoor activities to avoid exposure to the haze and similar conditions,” said Amirudin.
Six areas in Selangor recorded Air Pollution Index (API) readings at unhealthy levels as of 4.30 pm today.
An API reading of zero to 50 indicates good air quality; 51 to 100 (moderate); 101 to 200 (unhealthy); 201 to 300 (very unhealthy); and above 301 (hazardous). — Bernama