'Truly Scared': Blazes Outpace Firefighters in Indonesian Borneo
Hundreds of schools are closed and about 200,000 pupils are learning from home as air pollution surges, the education ministry said.
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Radio France Internationale
Free Malaysia Today NewsPraying for rain as fires, haze plague Indonesian Borneo
Blamed partly on one of the worst episodes of the drought-inducing El Nino weather phenomenon in decades, the disaster threatens millions of people's access to necessities such as clean water and air -- even education. Here is the situation as seen from the perspective of three community leaders in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province, one of the worst-affected regions: The teacher - Syarifah Hatifah, the 57-year-old vice principal of a junior …
Malay Mail
AlKhaleej Today‘Truly scared’: Indonesian firefighters struggle to contain Borneo blazes as haze chokes communities
PONTIANAK, Sept 7 — Toiling around the clock, haggard Indonesian firefighters on Borneo island cannot keep up with the blazes devouring landscapes and shrouding communities in a...
“We are exhausted. Sometimes we fight the fires until dawn. Sometimes we don’t sleep,” says Sampe Ritonga, fire chief of the Sintang district in West Kalimantan. Firefighters are waging a perilous battle, with limited resources, against blazes attributed in part to a more intense than normal El Niño weather phenomenon, which is drying out Southeast Asia. Experts also point to climate change, decades of deforestation, and slash-and-burn agricultu…
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