{"id":796656,"date":"2026-10-09T04:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796656\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T04:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:22:10","slug":"toxic-haze-from-indonesia-shuts-schools-in-malaysia-as-pollution-hits-record-levels-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796656\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic haze from Indonesia shuts schools in Malaysia as pollution hits record levels in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is Indonesia doing about the fires?published at 03:35 BST<\/p>\n

03:35 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Liza Tambunan
Jakarta Correspondent<\/p>\n

Authorities
\nhave deployed tens of thousands of personnel to tackle the blazes, particularly
\nin six priority areas spread across Kalimantan and Sumatra.<\/p>\n

They are
\ntasked with fire-fighting efforts both on the ground and above, including
\nthrough cloud-seeding operations to trigger rain, as well as water-bombing from
\nhelicopters.<\/p>\n

Japan and
\nMalaysia have also helped in these efforts.<\/p>\n

But the
\nfires keep burning, as official data shows the number of hotspots continue to
\nfluctuate, rising again after a period of decline. <\/p>\n

Indonesia is experiencing its worse wildfires since 2015. Scientists say these fires are exacerbated by the dry conditions brought on by the ongoing super El Nino.<\/p>\n

But environment groups have also highlighted human activities as a contributing factor these blazes and are calling for stricter repercussions against corporations who are allegedly linked to the fires, in particular from illegal slash-and-burning activities.<\/p>\n

Amid a public outcry, President Prabowo Subianto has vowed to take firm action against
\ncorporations found responsible for forest and land fires.<\/p>\n

Authorities
\nhave so far revoked the permits of five companies accused of contributing to
\nthe fires, while dozens of others have their permits frozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is Indonesia doing about the fires?published at 03:35 BST 03:35 BST Liza TambunanJakarta Correspondent Authorities have deployed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}