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Eastern Indonesia Time (Waktu Indonesia Timur, WIT) is nine hours ahead , used in the Maluku Islands and Western New Guinea. In 1908, during the Dutch East Indies colonial era, only Java and the Madura Island were initially given time until 1932, when the government utilised UTC+06:30 up to +09:30 .
The international definition of fog is a visibility of less than 1 km (3,300 ft); mist is a visibility of between 1 km (0.62 mi) and 2 km (1.2 mi) and haze from 2 km (1.2 mi) to 5 km (3.1 mi). Fog and mist are generally assumed to be composed principally of water droplets, haze and smoke can be of smaller particle size.
The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported that the weather was clear around the time of the crash, with winds at 9.3 km/h (5 kn) from the northwest. Visibility was good with no cumulonimbus clouds. [125]
Owing to the high Indonesian mountains on the south coast of the island of Java, an altitude of at least 11,500 feet (3,500 m) was required to cross the coast safely. The crew decided that if the aircraft was unable to maintain altitude by the time they reached 12,000 feet (3,700 m), they would turn back out to sea and attempt to ditch into the ...
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By scattering and absorbing light, the fire-related particulate also resulted in reduced visibility; impairing transportation by air, land and water and seriously affecting the economies of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Among the economic sectors affected most were air, land and sea transportation, construction, tourism and agricultural ...
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Western Indonesia Time UTC offset: UTC+07:00: Central Indonesia Time UTC offset: UTC+08:00: Eastern Indonesia Time UTC offset: UTC+09:00: Adopted: 1 January 1988: Time notation: 24-hour clock: tz database: Asia/Jakarta · Asia/Pontianak · Asia/Makassar · Asia/Jayapura