Greenpeace: 4.4m hectares of Indonesia's forests scorched since 2015


JAKARTA, Oct 23 (dpa): Indonesia has lost about 4.4 million hectares of forests and peatlands to fires since 2015, according to a report released by Greenpeace on Thursday night (Oct 23).

About 30 per cent of areas burned between 2015 and 2019 are located in palm oil and pulpwood concessions, the environmental group wrote in the report titled "Burning Issues: Five Years of Fire."

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