JAKARTA: Indonesia is reviewing laws that allow farmers to burn up to 2ha, forestry officials said, the latest in so-far unsuccessful efforts to halt fires that have sent choking smoke across much of South-East Asia.
Indonesia is also considering declaring a national emergency over the fires, which this week caused President Joko Widodo to cut short an official trip to the United States and pushed the country's greenhouse gas emissions above the daily average from all economic activity in the US.
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