Blazes, causing a diplomatic row with Malaysia, rage on twin islands in Indonesia with authorities deploying water-bombing helicopters and security forces to tackle them
A member of the local Mitigation Agency and an Indonesian soldier spray water to help extinguish a fire in the Kampar regency in Indonesia's Riau province on September 12, 2019.
It is just the latest such outbreak globally –– huge blazes have torn through the Amazon in South America while bushfires are sweeping across eastern Australia in an unusually ferocious and early start to the wildfire season. A firefighter extinguishes a fire in a forest at Rambutan village, in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra province, on September 11, 2019.
Provincial capital Pekanbaru was blanketed in dense smoke, leaving the sky dark even at midday. Residents sought to go about their daily lives as usual, with many wearing only rudimentary face masks. In 2015 Indonesia suffered its worst forest fires for about two decades, which dramatically increased its greenhouse gas emissions.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad will write to Indonesian President Joko Widodo raising concerns about the haze, she said.
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