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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Indonesia's choking wildfire, haze worsen breathing woes on Borneo
Indonesian housewife Mimi Marlina rode a motorbike through thickening haze blanketing the city of Pontianak on Borneo island, making a foray to buy groceries and supplies as the Southeast Asian nation battles raging forest fires.
Forest fires have worsened the situation on Indonesia's Borneo island. The city of Pontianak in West Kalimantan is shrouded in thick smoke. More than 12.5 million people across seven provinces are affected, and cases of respiratory illnesses have doubled in just a few days.
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
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