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Indonesia charges 72 over fires as haze chokes Borneo and Sumatra
AI KEY TAKEAWAYS (TL;DR)
- Indonesian authorities have charged 72 individuals with intentionally igniting forest fires across five provinces on the island of Borneo and four on Sumatra
- Fires across both islands have burned nearly 286,000 hectares (about 707,000 acres) of land from January to Aug
- 24 alone, according to FireWatch, a satellite-based monitoring tool developed by forest-mapping platform Nusantara […]
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Indonesian authorities have charged 72 individuals with intentionally igniting forest fires across five provinces on the island of Borneo and four on Sumatra. Fires across both islands have burned nearly 286,000 hectares (about 707,000 acres) of land from January to Aug. 24 alone, according to FireWatch, a satellite-based monitoring tool developed by forest-mapping platform Nusantara […]
