Jokowi calls in the army to help fight Indonesian fires causing haze

JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo said he ordered the military and the police to tackle forest fires after neighboring countries complained that smoke from the burning is making the air unhealthy.

"When there is fire, there will be smoke, and if there is wind it can get anywhere,” the president, known as Jokowi, told reporters in Jakarta on Saturday. "I have ordered the military chief and the police to handle every hotspot, however small, immediately.”