‘Like smoking a cigarette’: Indonesia chokes on haze as blazes intensify amid super ‘El Niño’

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Indonesia’s Kalimantan region is experiencing severe haze due to widespread fires amid an intense El Niño event. The smoke has severely affected local air quality, extending to neighboring Malaysia and Singapore.

In Indonesia’s Kalimantan, fires have ravaged tens of thousands of acres, with suffocating smoke reaching Malaysia and putting Singapore on alert Suwadi can barely see five metres in front of him when he steps outside his home in Indonesian Borneo. Each breath, he says, feels “like smoking a cigarette”. Continue reading...