Regional fallout grows as Indonesia rejects disaster status印尼拒绝承认灾难地位，区域性影响不断扩大。
JAKARTA: Indonesia's refusal to declare the prolonged forest fires a national disaster has drawn mounting criticism as hae affects millions at home and abroad, prompting Malaysia's carriers to cancel flights and Singapore to revive a health subsidy scheme for the first time in more than a decade.
Firefighters work on cointaining a wildfire in Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan province, on October 13, 2026. Toxic haze has shrouded parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore for weeks as Jakarta struggles to contain fires that have scorched large tracts of Borneo and Sumatra, with the smoke drifting across the region. - AFP
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s refusal to declare the prolonged forest fires a national disaster has drawn mounting criticism as hae affects millions at home and abroad, prompting Malaysia’s carriers to cancel flights and Singapore to revive a health subsidy scheme for the first time in more than a decade.
Greenpeace forest campaigner Belgis Habiba said on Tuesday (Oct 13) that the scale of crisis and their impact on communities warranted declaring a national disaster. She criticised the government for failing to prevent the fires despite longstanding scientific warnings about the risk of prolonged drought linked to El Niño this year.
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2026年10月13日，消防员在南加里曼丹省班贾尔巴鲁扑灭山火。由于雅加达正努力控制肆虐婆罗洲和苏门答腊大片地区的山火，有毒烟雾已笼罩印尼、马来西亚和新加坡部分地区数周，并持续飘散至整个地区。——法新社
雅加达：印尼拒绝宣布持续不断的森林大火为国家灾难，引发了越来越多的批评，因为这场大火影响了国内外数百万人，促使马来西亚的航空公司取消航班，新加坡也十多年来首次恢复了医疗补贴计划。
绿色和平组织森林保护人士贝尔吉斯·哈比巴（Belgis Habiba）周二（10月13日）表示，这场危机的规模及其对社区的影响，足以构成国家灾难。她批评政府未能阻止火灾的发生，尽管科学界长期以来一直警告今年厄尔尼诺现象可能导致持续干旱。
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