Eyewitness video shows a thick orange haze blanketing central Kalimantan on October 14, as ongoing forest fires continued to burn in the Indonesian province.
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The ISPU air pollution index exceeded 1,200 – or four times the ‘hazardous’ level of 300 – environment ministry data showed.
Since January, almost 900,000 hectares have been burned Indonesia-wide in the worst fire season in more than a decade, exacerbated by this year’s ‘godzilla’ El-Nino and as the practice of ‘slash and burn’ to clear land for crops such as palm oil persists.
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