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Massive wildfires are spreading across Borneo and Sumatra, blanketing cities in toxic haze, closing schools, disrupting flights, and endangering millions of people across Indonesia and neighbouring countries like Malaysia and Singapore. While El Niño has worsened the dry season, the crisis is rooted in decades of deforestation and the draining of peatlands to make way for palm oil plantations, where drained peat becomes highly flammable and can burn underground for weeks even after surface flames are extinguished. Indonesian authorities have arrested 72 people suspected of deliberately starting fires and are investigating 19 companies whose concession areas burned over 11,000 hectares, raising questions about corporate responsibility for preventing fires on land they control. The human toll is severe, with residents reporting widespread respiratory illness, and the ecological damage extends to wildlife, with an orangutan named Sampurna rescued from a burning plantation after suffering smoke-induced oxygen deprivation. The analysis underscores that Indonesia's fires are not a purely natural disaster but a man-made vulnerability: until drained peatlands are restored and land-use practices change, the country will keep fighting the same fire year after year.
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Massive wildfires are spreading across Borneo and Sumatra, blanketing cities in toxic haze, closing schools, disrupting flights, and endangering millions of people across Indonesia and neighbouring countries like Malaysia and Singapore. While El Niño has worsened the dry season, the crisis is rooted in decades of deforestation and the draining of peatlands to make way for palm oil plantations, where drained peat becomes highly flammable and can burn underground for weeks even after surface flames are extinguished. Indonesian authorities have arrested 72 people suspected of deliberately starting fires and are investigating 19 companies whose concession areas burned over 11,000 hectares, raising questions about corporate responsibility for preventing fires on land they control. The human toll is severe, with residents reporting widespread respiratory illness, and the ecological damage extends to wildlife, with an orangutan named Sampurna rescued from a burning plantation after suffering smoke-induced oxygen deprivation. The analysis underscores that Indonesia's fires are not a purely natural disaster but a man-made vulnerability: until drained peatlands are restored and land-use practices change, the country will keep fighting the same fire year after year.
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