KOTA BELUD, Sept 14 – Malaysia Meteorological Department (MET) has received instructions and recommendations of the National Security Council (NSC) to conduct that cloud seeding if the haze had not changed in the last 72 hours from started from now.
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaffar said Tengku cloud seeding should be implemented, especially in Peninsular Malaysia when the Air Pollution Index (API) in the affected area had unhealthy levels for the next 72 hours consistently.
“Now the most important is not above the clouds or haze, which can cause it to rain, so seeding is subject to two things, namely the ability of the ship (flying) to move up or a cloud for cultured. The NSC was informed of this matter and has issued instructions to the MET and actually we hope in today seeding was done,” he told reporters after official working visit to review the state of deposition and erosion in the river Kawang here Monday.
In the meantime, he will leave for Indonesia on the Eid al-Adha to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the issue of transboundary haze. I had to leave for Indonesia on (Day) Eid al-Adha to meet my colleagues there on 25 September to discuss the haze and the signing should take place on September 18, but was postponed,” he said.
He said this new MoU will be signed for a period of five years and will affect the relations of cooperation between Malaysia and Indonesia help and exchange ideas on forest fires and so on. Forest fires for agricultural purposes occurs every year in Indonesia, which has been blamed for the haze in Southeast Asia, especially in Malaysia and Singapore.
