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PALEMBANG, Indonesia—Authorities in Indonesia’s South Sumatra, the province with the highest number of wildfire hot spots, turned to spiritual measures on Tuesday as huge blazes in central and western ...
News Indonesia » South Sumatra » Health: Southeast Asian neighbours fume as Indonesia’s fire crisis chokes millions
By IntelliNews - Surabaya Bureau While severe drought driven by a 'Godzilla' El Niño provided the dry spell across Southeast Asia in 2026, recent reports show that Indonesia’s wildfires, rampant in ...
News Indonesia » South Sumatra » Health: More schools close in Indonesia due to worsening haze from forest fires
PALEMBANG, Indonesia — Schools in the capital of Indonesia’s South Sumatra province switched to remote learning Wednesday as worsening haze from forest and peatland fires pushed air pollution to ...
News Indonesia » South Sumatra » Health: Indonesian Forest Fires Persist: How Bad Is the Health Impact?
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Ministry of Health has recorded a cumulative 333,470 cases of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) linked to forest fires across several affected regions. The ...
News Indonesia » South Sumatra » Health: Indonesia breaks smoke inversion with dry ice where cloud seeding cannot reach
Indonesia wildfire haze 2026 has forced a new response: dry ice dropped from aircraft to bust atmospheric inversions trapping smoke over Palembang -- the only method that works when near-zero ...
News Indonesia » South Sumatra » Health: Indonesian Authorities Deploy Dry Ice To Disperse Thick Haze Over South Sumatra
Indonesian disaster management authorities have launched aerial operations using tonnes of dry ice to disperse thick haze originating from forest and peatland fires across South Sumatra Indonesia's ...
News Indonesia » South Sumatra » Health: Indonesia's BNPB uses 2.4 tons of dry ice to clear South Sumatra haze
Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) used 2.4 tons of dry ice in a two-day weather modification operation on Oct. 15-16 to combat forest ...
News Indonesia » South Sumatra » Health: Indonesia Informs Malaysia of Efforts to Tackle Sumatra, Kalimantan Fires
Indonesia has briefed Malaysia on measures to tackle forest and land fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan, Foreign Affairs Minister Arrmanatha Nasir says.
News Indonesia » South Sumatra » Health: Indonesia Adapts 1940s Dry-Ice Technology in Fight to Clear Haze
Indonesia is repurposing a weather-modification technique pioneered in the 1940s in its latest attempt to combat thick haze from forest fires that’s disrupted flights and forced schools to close ...
News Indonesia » South Sumatra » Health: Indonesian children locked out of school as El Niño haze chokes parts of Sumatra & Kalimantan
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Poor air quality over several Indonesian cities and outlying rural areas has forced local authorities to cut class times or close schools ...