Southeast Asia's haze crisis: Have lessons been learned?
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- Where
- Sumatra, Borneo, Papuaresolved to country
- When
- Occurrence date not stated by reportingFirst reported 2026-10-06
- Sourcing
- 1 reports1 outlet carrying it · independence not established
- How far this got
- reportednamed locality unresolvedThermal detections
Summary
Indonesia's worst wildfire season in more than a decade is exposing how much, and how little, Southeast Asia's response to haze has changed since 2015. Forest and land fires have burned across parts of the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Papua for weeks, sending smoke across large areas of the country and into neighboring Malaysia and Singapore. The haze has exposed millions of people to hazardous smoke containing harmful microscopic particles, leading to over 170,000 cases of acute respiratory infection in Indonesia between August and mid-September. The haze has also forced hundreds of schools to close in Malaysia and pushed more than 1.4 million Indonesian students into remote learning. The crisis is attributed to Indonesia's long dry season, coupled with this year's El Nino, and the long-term use of fire as a cheap way to clear land for agriculture, particularly in palm oil and pulpwood plantations. Despite policy changes and regional cooperation efforts since the 2015 disaster, the underlying problem of drained and degraded peatlands remains, and the global demand for cheap, plantation-grown commodities continues to drive the pressure to convert peatlands and forests to plantations.
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What remains unresolved
- named locality unresolved
Sources
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- dw.com
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