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Palm Farmers' Group: Indonesia's Action on Haze Won't Stop Burning

Forest fires in Indonesia that have caused choking smoke across much of Southeast Asia will flare up again next year because government action to tackle the crisis is ineffective, a palm farmers group said. Indonesia and the wider Southeast Asian region have been suffering for weeks from smoke caused by smoldering forest and peatland fires, largely in Sumatra and Borneo islands that authorities have struggled to contain. Green groups and palm oil plantation firms say a 2009 law that...


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