JAKARTA: Indonesia will prosecute at least 10 plantation companies for lighting fires that destroyed thousands of hectares of jungle and covered parts of Malaysia with noxious haze, said its Forestry Minister Malam Kaban.
Malam said his office investigated the fires and determined that eight Malaysian companies and two Indonesian firms were lighting fires on their pulp and palm oil plantations.
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