[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Hundreds of fires rage across Indonesia
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Hundreds of fires rage across Indonesia
Sat Sep 2, 6:31 AM ET
JAKARTA (AFP) - Hundreds of forest fires are raging across Indonesia, from the
island of Borneo to Maluku, eastern Indonesia, during the country's "fire
season".
Nearly 1,800 hotspots have been detected said Johnie Hadi Prakoso, according to
an official from the Forestry Ministry in Jakarta.
"It's very dry and there is no rain, so the farmers in the fields, sometimes
illegal farmers and sometimes companies start fires," he said Saturday. "Every
year from June to August is fire season."
Prakoso said that 90 percent of hotspots - areas with high ground temperatures
detected by a heat sensitive satellite - are forest fires.
Earlier this week Friends of the Earth Indonesia accused 178 companies of
starting fires in Indonesian Borneo and the island of Sumatra.
On Friday Indonesian police chief General Sutanto ordered all regional police
heads to investigate the allegations.
Burning in Indonesia and some parts of Malaysia to clear land for crops causes
an annual haze that smothers parts of Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand as well
as Indonesia itself.
Indonesia's neighbours have urged Jakarta to prevent the annual forest clearing
burn-offs, warning that it is hurting business and putting off tourists.
The Indonesian government has outlawed land clearing by fire but weak
enforcement means the ban is largely ignored.
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