JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is hoping for rain to help extinguish forest fires that have been smouldering for weeks, shrouding parts of Southeast Asia in thick smog, a government official said on Thursday.
For years, the region has suffered annual bouts of smog, caused by slash-and-burn farming in Indonesia's northern islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan, but governments' efforts to tackle the problem have failed.
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