26.10.2015 - 00:07 [ The Jakarta Post ]

Erik Meijaard: Indonesia‘s Fire Crisis — The Biggest Environmental Crime of the 21st Century

While the haze problem from fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra is still worsening, the news seems to be slowly slipping from the headlines. Apart from the approximate 40 million people breathing in noxious smoke day in day out, not many media outlets here or overseas really seem to care about the issue. I find this astonishing. Not only is there appalling human suffering, with hundreds of thousands of people ill and many dead, the fires are a massive cost to the Indonesian economy.