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View all search resultsIndonesia has offered a glimpse of hope for the environment, with its rate of deforestation having decreased for a third year in a row as a result of the government’s response to the devastating 2015-2016 fire crisis, even as global deforestation continues apace.
Four ASEAN representatives sitting on the group's human rights body are calling on all member states to implement a transboundary haze treaty, pushing Indonesia further into a corner over the clouds of smog that have coated the region because of land and forest fires in the archipelago.
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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