Maretha Uli, Jakarta – When atmospheric haze from forest and peatland fires worsened in Kalimantan in mid-October, videos showing skies turning dusty orange spread widely across social

Singapore – As South-east Asia faces its most severe haze crisis in over a decade, governments and environmental organisations are starting to identify the companies that could be respo

Gembong Hanung, Jakarta – Children are bearing the brunt of the escalating crises triggered by widespread wildfires in the country as wildfires disrupt many aspects of their daily lives

Isabel Esterman – Thick smog covers the forest canopy in Ketapang, West Kalimantan, dimming the sun.

Sara Hussein, Bangkok – After months of fires in Indonesia that have caused thick regional haze, attention is turning to whether companies can be held accountable for the blazes and res

Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto on Thursday warned that foreign companies implicated in Indonesia's recurring forest and land fires could face severe pena

Jakarta – A blame game has erupted between some of Indonesia's provincial authorities and the central government as forest fires scorch Kalimantan and Sumatra.

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ministry of Health said it has established 477 'oxygen houses' in community health centers, hospitals, and other facilities to tackle health impacts of

Gembong Hanung, Jakarta – The government is investigating an alleged wildlife killing within an oil palm concession owned by a Singaporean firm certified sustainable in West Kalimantan

Jakarta – Indonesia is investigating 98 cases involving corporations linked to forest and land fires – some with ties to foreign parties including those from neighbouring countries – wh

Palembang – For months, firefighters in South Sumatra have battled peatland fires that refuse to die.

Nuevaterra Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (WALHI) Papua says forest and land fires in South Papua province have also affected Wasur National Park in M

In dealing with land and forest fires, the administration of Prabowo Subianto has failed to learn from the mistakes of its predecessor.

Singapore – Singapore said on Friday it would issue warnings to seven companies in Indonesia it identified as responsible for fires that have sent toxic smoke across Southeast Asia, war

Dinda Shabrina, Jakarta – A growing number of Instagram users have raised concerns over alleged content suppression on the platform, specifically when sharing media related to ongoing f

Dinda Shabrina, Jakarta – The Student Alliance of Gadjah Mada University (SEMA UGM) wrote to ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn about the forest fire and the subsequent haze that hav

Jayapura, Jubi – Thick smoke continued to blanket Fakfak, the capital of Fakfak Regency in West Papua, on Friday (October 16), as widespread forest and land fires burned amid a prolonge

Stefano Valentino, Ajit Niranjan – Volkswagen, Ford and Tesla are among the electric carmakers whose batteries may contain nickel mined in indigenous woodlands plagued by deforestation,

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia is facing growing criticism over its response to a forest and land fire crisis that has sent choking haze billowing into neighboring Malaysia and

Four people tackling a wildfire in a national park on Indonesia's island of Java have been killed, the Forestry Ministry said, as the country battles its worst forest fires in more than

Indonesia, West Papua – Since August 2026, fires have burned more than 30,000 hectares of forest and land across West Papua, with South Papua Province alone losing 25,838 hectares, thre

Oliver Holmes – Singapore is threatening to prosecute companies responsible for some of the worst fires in years in neighbouring Indonesia, as the region grows increasingly frustrated w

Antara, Jakarta – Forest and land fires on Dayan Bonder Island, located in North Batanta District, Raja Ampat Regency, Southwest Papua, have expanded rapidly as a prolonged drought fuel

Jayapura, Jubi – Thick smoke haze has blanketed Timika, the capital of Mimika Regency in Central Papua, with smoke from forest and land fires in Merauke Regency, South Papua, carried by

Bardjan, Jakarta – Singapore is considering legal action against companies suspected of causing or allowing fires that send haze across national borders, as air pollution from Indonesia

Kate Lamb – As fires ravage Indonesia, emitting a toxic smoke that has drawn the ire of regional neighbours, the government is testing an unusual new approach to tackle the haze: dry ic

Maretha Uli and Yerica Lai, Jakarta – Indonesia's refusal to declare the prolonged forest fires a national disaster has drawn mounting criticism as haze affects millions at home and abr

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has launched a study titled "Who's Behind the Fires?" to uncover the actors behind the companies with indications of the highe

Gembong Hanung, Jakarta – Raging fires have scorched a number of national parks in Kalimantan and Sumatra in recent weeks, with fast-spreading blazes threatening an orangutan population

Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has ordered more action to fight forest and land fires that have sent thick haze to Singapore and Malaysia, but offers of help from the t

Jonathan Watts – A forest fire on Indonesia's Sumatra island fuelled by El Nino has razed nearly 300 homes, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, an official has said, as the c

Petaling Jaya – A claim by an Indonesian official that his country supplies Malaysia and Singapore with "oxygen, not just haze" has sparked a wave of online ridicule, with social media

Jayapura, Jubi – Jayapura City and Jayapura Regency in Papua Province have been blanketed by smoke haze in recent days, believed to have originated from forest and land fires in norther

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia says it no longer needs to expand rice cultivation into forest areas, but it has yet to explain what the announcement means for large-scale food

Jakarta – Police are investigating a series of traffic accidents triggered by wildfire haze in Lampung's Tulang Bawang regency, Lampung province that left two people dead and five other

Heru Febrianto, Jakarta – Forest and land fires disrupted 1,673 scheduled domestic flights in Indonesia between Aug. 11 and Oct.

Jayapura – The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) together with the Papua Legal Aid Foundation (LBH), the Papua Merauke LBH and the LBH Papua Sorong Post is urging the president, g

Jakarta – Eight orangutans rescued in recent weeks from blazes that tore through West Kalimantan have been released into a protected forest, Indonesian authorities and rescuers said on

Dede Leni Mardianti, Jakarta – Forest and land fires continue to burn across several parts of Indonesia, with 7,555 hotspots and 196 fire spots recorded in six priority provinces as of

Bardjan, Jakarta – Malaysia has expanded school closures to several states, Kuala Lumpur and administrative capital Putrajaya as severe haze linked to forest and land fires in Indonesia

DW (Deutsche Welle), Jakarta – Malaysian authorities closed schools in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, and other parts of the country on Friday due to haze caused by forest fires in nearby I

Basten Gokkon – Wildfires in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, are leaving wildlife without fresh water as ponds turn brackish and forest pools dry up, driving animals into villages and towar

Oliver Holmes – The Indonesian government has been accused of "gross negligence" in a class action lawsuit over its handling of wildfires that have cloaked large parts of South-east Asi

Agencies, Jakarta – The Indonesian government was accused of "gross negligence" in a court case that opened on Wednesday against the president and other officials over a toxic haze emit

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia plans to move away from clearing forests for new rice fields after achieving self-sufficiency in the staple ahead of schedule, although the go

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Fires burning within rainforests that contain more than half of the world's critically endangered Bornean orangutan population have prompted scientists and

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – In 2016, following the most devastating land and forest fires in its recorded history the previous year, the Indonesian government set up an agency to rest

Manokwari, Jubi – The West Papua provincial government has been criticised for its response to forest and land fires, with smoke haze continuing to affect several parts of the province.

Rebecca Ratcliffe – The mother's hands were peeling from walking on the torched ground. Her eight-month-old baby, which clung to her side, was dehydrated and thin.

Agencies, Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia's capital topped a global pollution ranking on Wednesday and nearby Singapore came in third, with smoke from wildfires in neighbouring Indonesia blamed