BARA

Bara (Indonesian for "embers") is a peat fire forecast and crew dispatch tool for Indonesia's fire brigades. 2026 is Indonesia's worst fire season in over a decade: CREA estimates fire smoke caused 3,560 deaths in Indonesia in September alone, Malaysia sent about 2 million students home in October, and Singapore ranked among the world's most polluted cities. On 3 Nov 2026 satellites still saw 1,506 fire detections across Sumatra and Kalimantan, nine times a typical day this year. Peat fires smoulder underground and crews are few. Each morning Bara brings in the latest NASA satellite fire detections and rain data, forecasts where fire is likely to spread tomorrow (LightGBM on 1 km cells with peat and rain), ranks places by risk, and gives each crew an ordered route for the day with an exact solver. Satellites miss fire under smoke and underground, so rangers can answer back with a WhatsApp voice note. Muse Voice Transcribe writes it down, Muse Spark 1.3 turns it into a structured report where every field is backed by a quote, Bara finds the village, fixed rules update the risk, the solver re-plans the routes. It is tested honestly: on the 2023 season, held out and pre-registered, the forecast beat "yesterday's fires" (average precision 0.162 vs 0.099), and crews following Bara reached 9.9% more next-day fire with fewer visits (1,122 vs 1,974). On 2026 so far it scores 0.288 vs 0.195.