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View all search resultsState-owned airport operator Angkasa Pura II noted an increase in the number of passengers travelling from Sultan Syarif Kasim II International Airport in Riau to Kualanamu International Airport in North Sumatra since the forest fires intensified.
Disruptions caused by land and forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan continue to worsen as airlines have been forced to cancel flights, hundreds of thousands of people suffer from acute respiratory infections (ISPA) and the air quality reaches unhealthy levels in neighboring Malaysia and Singapore.
Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said the government had sealed off land owned by three Malaysian palm oil companies and one Singaporean company, blaming them for causing land and forest fires in Riau and West Kalimantan.
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