Source: The Business Times Date: 1 July 2020 An Indonesian province declared a state of emergency Wednesday as officials said they had pinpointed hundreds of spots at risk of erupting into smog-belching forest fires that plague the region every year. Central Kalimantan on Borneo island was rava...
Precautions against forest fires
Source: The Jakarta PostDate: 15 June 2020 Beleaguered and overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic that has caused public-health and economic crises, the government and plantation businesses seem relaxed about or unaware of being on the cusp of the annual bout of forest and peatland fires during the cu...
Indonesia starts cloud seeding to keep forest fires at bay
Source: The Jakarta PostDate: 28 May 2020 Indonesia has started cloud seeding to induce rain as the archipelago moves to head off annual forest fires blamed for blanketing swathes of Southeast Asia in toxic haze. Last year's fires were the worst since 2015 due to dry weather, with some 1.6 mill...