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Controlling the burn: Indonesia’s efforts to prevent forest and land fire crisis

The cost of Indonesia’s 2015 forest fires has now reached $16.1 billion – almost twice as much as it cost to rebuild the country after the 2004 tsunami!

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Controlling the burn: Indonesia’s efforts to prevent forest and land fire crisis

Forest and land fires making the news in Indonesia is nothing new. But a hostage drama in the middle of “fire season”? That’s a new twist, and indeed dominated headlines in early September. After collecting evidence of burned land within a palm oil concession in Rokan Hulu, Riau, seven inspectors fr…