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Text your say: Heavy sanctions against firms burning forests
Choked: Motorists travel along a road amid haze from wildfires that blanketed the city of Palembang, South Sumatra, over the weekend
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Choked: Motorists travel along a road amid haze from wildfires that blanketed the city of Palembang, South Sumatra, over the weekend. Slash-and-burn practices destroy huge areas of forests during the dry season, and are spreading choking smoke and polluted air across western Indonesia and neighboring countries.(AP/Tatan Syuflana) (AP/Tatan Syuflana)
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span class="inline inline-center">Choked: Motorists travel along a road amid haze from wildfires that blanketed the city of Palembang, South Sumatra, over the weekend. Slash-and-burn practices destroy huge areas of forests during the dry season, and are spreading choking smoke and polluted air across western Indonesia and neighboring countries.(AP/Tatan Syuflana)
Your comments on the Supreme Court's decision to hand a hefty fine of Rp 366 billion (US$25.2 million) to a company found to have caused forest fires:
A drop in the ocean, but better than nothing anyway.
Tarco Immanuel De Vries
The hefty fine worth Rp 366 billion will be paid by the plantation company for causing forest fires, and then the same company will burn another forest that is even bigger and will pay the amount set by the government next time and let the band keep playing while the companies are swaying.
E. Nurdin
A suggestion to Sucofindo and to related government departments:
Please, Sucofindo should extend its services to be available 24 hours, seven days a week to increase export activities of non-oil and gas.
Badri
Plantation companies causing forest fires should be simply suspended from operating for 10 years to give the flora and fauna time to recover. Recidivists suspended forever! The destruction has lasted too long already.
TG
The government allows the slash-and-burn method! Don't they know thousands of kids and elderly are suffering acute respiratory illness?
Cronos
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