JAKARTA: Thick haze from forest fires and cropland clearing has blanketed Indonesia's Riau on Sumatra island, limiting visibility and disrupting flights to and from the province, officials and news reports said yesterday.
“The haze has limited visibility to only about 300m at 6am this morning,” an official at Pekan Baru's Sultan Syarif Kasim airport said by telephone.
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