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Two days of rain at the start of the week have eased the haze and improved visibility in parts of Indonesia after months of forest and land fires.
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan: Indonesia beefs up security presence to prepare for student protests
Hundreds of Indonesian security personnel were deployed on Wednesday in anticipation of student protests against several of President Prabowo Subianto's policies, as well as his government's handling ...
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan: Singapore and Indonesia set up a task force to combat haze from illegal burning
Indonesia and Singapore have agreed to work together to tackle illegal land burning, which has caused a toxic haze across Southeast Asia.
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan: Indonesia sends oxygen bus to aid residents choking on forest fire haze
A bus fitted out with oxygen tanks is providing a sanctuary in a city on Indonesia's Borneo island where people are ...
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan: Breathing ‘poison’: In Borneo, residents are gasping for air
Palangkaraya, Indonesia—Sudarsono shuddered as he inhaled from an oxygen tank while being evacuated from his small house in Palangkaraya on Indonesian Borneo, yellow, acrid wildfire smoke billowing ...
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan: Thousands of Indonesian students protest over haze and demand emergency declared
Protesters wore thick masks against the smoke, which has tinged the city orange, and some held signs reading ‘haze emergency’ ...
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan: Orangutan Mother and 10-Month-Old Infant Rescued in Central Kalimantan
An orangutan mother and her 10-month-old infant were rescued in Central Kalimantan, where the mother received treatment for serious wrist wounds.
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan: Indonesia: First rains bring relief to haze-hit Sumatra and Kalimantan
JAKARTA – When heavy rain finally swept across parts of Palembang on the afternoon of Oct 24, many residents of the South Sumatran capital did not run for cover. They reached for their phones. Within ...
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan: Indonesia focuses firefighting on South Sumatra, central Kalimantan
Indonesia is focusing firefighting operations on South Sumatra and Central Kalimantan, with 61 aircraft on standby as forest and land fire hotspots remain high or increase in some areas despite a ...
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan: Students protest Central Kalimantan haze
The students, many wearing surgical masks, gathered under an eerily orange sky with severely reduced visibility and waved banners urging authorities to declare a national emergency to free up more aid ...
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan: 'How is it possible?': Students protest Indonesian haze
Hundreds of students protested late Friday in Indonesia's Palangkaraya, demanding the government do more to tackle a wildfire crisis that has shrouded their city and the wider region in toxic haze for ...
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan: Indonesia's new disaster mitigation chief plans to assess foreign aid to tackle wildfires
JAKARTA, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities said on Thursday they would consider offers of foreign assistance to tackle the country's biggest forest fires in over a decade after President ...