Firefighters battle a peatland forest fire in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra, on Sept. 23, 2019. - AFP
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Experts have said that Indonesia, which has struggled to curb land and forest fires in the past, might face a new challenge in mitigating fires: the Covid-19 epidemic.
About 1.6 million hectares of land and forest across the country were burned last year, the second-highest in the last five years after the massive 2015 fires that burned roughly 2.6 million ha, according to Environment and Forestry Ministry data.
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