Emergency meeting on Indonesian dust and smoke

Yesterday, the environment ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Thailand held emergency meetings in Riau province (Indonesia) to find ways to deal with the dust crisis caused by forest fires that occur every year in Indonesia.

In the draft statement, the remaining four countries called on the host country to ratify the ASEAN Transboundary Anti-Smog Agreement, which has been approved by the police in Jakarta. members signed in 2002. Accordingly, countries are obliged to take action first to resolve dust and smoke pollution caused by transboundary forest fires, through strict environmental protection regulations. detect fire by satellite, invest in training firefighters .

Earlier, Indonesian President Susilo B. Yudhoyono said it would deploy troops and police to extinguish forest fires in Sumatra and part of Borneo. At the same time, the government will hire Russian special aircraft to drop water bombs on hundreds of fires on the two islands.

Meanwhile, Australia is also struggling with a series of forest fires that occur across the south and east of the country. More than 300 fires started from the beginning of the week but until yesterday were not completely extinguished. Yesterday, Australian police arrested two people and warned many other minors for intentionally causing forest fires.

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