Indonesia News » South Kalimantan News Indonesia » South Kalimantan » Life: 'It smells like charred earth': BBC at Indonesia fire epicentre causing Singapore and Malaysia haze crisis
As wildfires continue to smother the region in toxic smog, the BBC travels to ground zero in Indonesian Borneo.
News Indonesia » South Kalimantan » Life: Borneo is burning - living on the frontline of Asia's toxic haze
Months of fires in Indonesia have cloaked Southeast Asia in haze and made hundreds of thousands of people sick.
News Indonesia » South Kalimantan » Life: Students rally over wildfires and haze in South Kalimantan
Hundreds of students rallied in Indonesia's South Kalimantan city of Banjarmasin on Thursday (Oct 22), demanding stronger government action to tackle forest and land fires that have blanketed parts of ...
News Indonesia » South Kalimantan » Life: From dance to clean-air shelters: How South-east Asians are turning haze anger into action
South-east Asians turn haze anger into action with art, humour and haze shelters across Indonesia and the region. Read more at straitstimes.com.
News Indonesia » South Kalimantan » Life: ‘We have to live with it’: Indonesia’s worst fires in years wreak havoc
Catastrophic fires raging on Borneo have made Alda Swarni Dewi’s life a misery, with a thick yellow haze blanketing the fields around her home, choking her and her toddler. Masks and air purifiers ...
News Indonesia » South Kalimantan » Life: Indonesia faces wildfire challenges ahead of Prabowo's second year
On a small patch of land, Mama Lifa and her offspring, Lifa, were found isolated among acacia trees after fires destroyed the surrounding forest. Their ...
News Indonesia » South Kalimantan » Life: Indonesia's worst wildfires in 11 years turn skies orange, choking millions
Indonesia is battling its worst wildfires in 11 years, with toxic haze threatening the daily lives of millions of residents. Skies over parts of Kalimantan and ...
News Indonesia » South Kalimantan » Life: Indonesian wildfires spurred by super El Niño choke South-East Asia
For three exhausting months, Andri Susanto and his crew have been fighting raging forest and land fires on the island of Borneo. For many, it's reminiscent of 2015, a horrid fire season that led to a ...
News Indonesia » South Kalimantan » Life: Indonesia's Dry Season to Be Drier This Year, Peak in September
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) projects that the dry season peak will occur from August to September this year in Indonesia. The Head of BMKG, Teuku ...
News Indonesia » South Kalimantan » Life: 100 years of Missionaries of the Holy Family in Kalimantan
On 27 February 1926, the missionaries arrived in Laham from Amsterdam, continuing the work begun by the Capuchins in 1907. The centre moved to Tering and the mission expanded until four dioceses were ...