Thick haze disrupts flights on Indonesia’s Borneo island
Authorities have deployed aircraft from seven partner nations as more than 202,000 hectares burned and haze forced school suspensions.
- Since Friday, thick haze has blanketed Pontianak, reducing visibility to less than 1 kilometer and disrupting airline flights across West Kalimantan province for several days.
- The Forestry Ministry recorded more than 202,000 hectares of burned land between January and July across Kalimantan; Daniel, head of the Disaster Information Task Force at the West Kalimantan Provincial Disaster Management Agency, noted smoke drifts from fires in multiple provinces.
- Toxic haze drifted more than 800 kilometers to breach Malaysia's emergency-level pollution threshold in Sarawak, while pollution forced schools to suspend learning across Indonesia, affecting more than 1.4 million students.
- Indonesian authorities intensified firefighting operations using equipment from Japan that arrived on Thursday, while the United States, Russia, Australia, Canada, and Ukraine provided aircraft to contain the blazes.
- Monitoring data from Monday shows a significant decrease in high-confidence hot spots across Central and West Kalimantan, as residents like Aminah hope for rain to end the health threat from fires burning for over a month.
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Thick haze disrupts flights on Indonesia's Borneo island; Poor visibility also hampers firefighting efforts
Thick smoke from forest fires has disrupted airline flights for several days in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province as an intensifying El Niño weather pattern and a prolonged dry season worsen the impact of blazes.
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Thick haze disrupts flights on Indonesia's Borneo island
Thick smoke from forest fires has disrupted flights in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province. An intensifying El Niño and prolonged dry season have worsened the impact.
In Indonesia, the dense smoke of forest fires that in recent days have struck the province of Western Kalimantan is causing discomfort to flights
Thick smoke from forest fires in Indonesia has caused disruptions to air travel in West Kalimantan province.
https://www.law-justice.co/detail.php?ID=210415Branch Communication & CSR Department Head of Supadio International Airport, M. Joko Wahyudi reported that thick smoke due to forest and land fires disrupted the operations of Supadio International Airport.
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