Indonesia students hold a protest over the fires causing haze over the city in Pekanbaru, Riau province on September 13, 2019. - Illegal fires to clear land for farming are raging on Indonesia's Sumatra and Borneo islands with firefighters battling round the clock through charred forests, and water-bombing helicopters deployed to douse the flames. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP)
JAKARTA: The spectre of a deadly haze that engulfed parts of Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand in 2015 hangs heavily over the administration of President Joko Widodo, especially after recent reports put the blame squarely on Indonesia.
Hundreds of schools in Malaysia have been shuttered due to concerns over increasingly poor air quality, and people from the region have expressed their grievances about the adverse effects that transboundary haze has had on their health and daily activities.
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