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Jakarta takes steps toward haze-free Southeast Asia

Indonesia backs NGO and corporate initiative to prevent forest fires

Sofyan Djalil, Indonesia's minister for agrarian and spatial planning, addresses the Responsible Business Forum in Jakarta on March 15. (Photo by Simon Roughneen)
SIMON ROUGHNEEN, Asia regional correspondent | Indonesia

JAKARTA -- Malaysia's environment minister is sure that 2017 will not see a repeat of the choking, eye-watering smog that covered parts of his country, as well as Singapore and areas in Indonesia, for around two months in 2015.

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