Republic to continue haze assistance

The Republic will in 2015 continue to offer assistance to Indonesia to help it combat forest fires that cause transboundary haze.

In a statement yesterday, Singapore’s Ministry for the Environment and Water Resources said the government will deploy one C-130 aircraft for cloud seeding operations, up to two C-130 aircraft to ferry a fire-fighting assistance team from the Singapore Civil Defence Force, an SCDF team to provide assessment and planning assistance in fire-fighting efforts to their Indonesian counterparts, high resolution satellite pictures and hotspot coordinates and a Chinook helicopter with one SCDF water bucket for aerial fire-fighting.