Keyword: "forest fires in Indonesia"

Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the country will deploy a Bombardier CL-415MP aircraft, three helicopters and 52 firefighters to Indonesia.

The number of Indonesians suffering respiratory problems or ISPA caused by smoke from forest and peatland fires blanketing parts of Borneo and Sumatra in the past few months has reached over 919,000, according to Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman Agus Wibowo.

Smog from forest fires in Indonesia’s Sumatra has made air quality in Singapore harmful for human’s health.

An airport on Sumatra island and schools in some provinces of Indonesia were forced to close on September 13 by smoke from forest fires in the country.

Malaysia is planning to seed clouds to make rain as air quality in many areas of the country has reached unhealthy levels due to smog from forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has requested utmost efforts to extinguish widespread forest fires in the country, warning that officials would be sacked if they fail.

Indonesia is enhancing measures to terminate forest fires across the archipelagic nation as the number of hotspots rise significantly.

Malaysia is ready to send firefighters to Indonesia to help put out forest fires in the country.

Dozens of people have been taken to hospitals for respiratory problems due to thick smoke caused by forest fires in Aceh province of Indonesia.

Businesses in the Southeast Asian region suffer damages amounting to millions of USD as a consequence of haze pollution over the past month.

Thailand’s Foreign Ministry on October 8 invited Indonesian Ambassador Lufty Raud to discuss measures to solve the haze problem.