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Haze spreads to Jakarta, but no disruption to flights
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The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) has announced that the haze has spread to Jakarta from forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan, but it has not affected the flights at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Tuesday.
BNPB's head of data information Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said on Monday that the spread of haze to Jakarta was the first time it has ever happened since forest fires started affecting Sumatra and Kalimantan. 'In previous years, we never saw the haze spread to Jakarta,' said Sutopo.
He said that that thin haze was seen at a height of 1,000 to 3,000 meters in Jakarta and looked thicker in the morning.
Meanwhile, the management of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport said on Tuesday that the haze did not affect any flights at the airport.
'Currently, there are no reports of haze from crew members in the field. If there is haze, it must be outside the airport,' said Yudho Arianto, a Soekarno-Hatta Airport Terminal 2 duty manager as reported by kompas.com on Tuesday.
He said that delays and cancellations of flights only occurred for the flights to haze-prone areas in Sumatra and Kalimantan.
BNPB said that apart from covering the Jakarta sky, thin haze has covered the sky above Banten, West Java, and the western part of Central Java. (bbn). (+)
