Lightning strikes in Indonesia

The detection network has located 1,000 lightning strikes in Indonesia since the archive began, including 212 in the last 7 days. That is 0.01% of all detected strikes worldwide, ranking Indonesia #70 of 143 countries with recorded lightning. Indonesia is counted under Asia in the continent totals.

Daily strikes, last 14 days

Day (UTC)	Detected strikes
2026-08-14	5
2026-08-13	27
2026-08-12	73
2026-08-11	13
2026-08-10	19
2026-08-09	37
2026-08-08	38
2026-08-07	1
2026-08-06	15
2026-08-05	18
2026-08-04	66
2026-08-03	149
2026-08-02	77
2026-08-01	82

Strikes by state or province

Regions follow Natural Earth admin-1 boundaries. "Unassigned" counts strikes inside Indonesia's territory but outside every region polygon, mostly coastal water and lakes.

#	State / province	Strikes	Last 7 days	Share
1	Unassigned	551	103	55.1%
2	Papua	183	83	18.3%
3	East Kalimantan	100	9	10.0%
4	West Kalimantan	98	3	9.8%
5	Riau	18	0	1.8%
6	Central Kalimantan	11	0	1.1%
7	North Sumatra	6	2	0.6%
8	West Sumatra	5	0	0.5%
9	Lampung	4	3	0.4%
10	Jambi	4	2	0.4%
11	Riau Islands	3	1	0.3%
12	Sabah	2	0	0.2%
13	Aceh	2	2	0.2%
14	Bangka Belitung Islands	2	2	0.2%
15	Southeast Sulawesi	2	0	0.2%
16	South Sumatra	2	0	0.2%
17	Maluku	2	0	0.2%
18	West Java	2	2	0.2%
19	South Kalimantan	1	0	0.1%
20	Sarawak	1	0	0.1%
21	West Papua	1	0	0.1%

These are detected strikes, and detection coverage differs by region; the data hub explains the method and its limits. For the climatological picture, see which countries get the most lightning.

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