Indonesia continues battling underground peat fires despite rainfall

FILE photo. A member of the all-women The Power of Mama (TPoM) volunteer firefighting team looks at smouldering peatland in Benipis, Ketapang Regency, West Kalimantan on Sept 26, 2026. For weeks on end, parts of Indonesian Borneo have resembled an Armageddon landscape with masked residents immersed in a putrid, red-brown haze as wildfires devour peatlands near homes and farms. Burning slowly, mostly under the surface and sometimes for months on end, peatland fires are responsible for much of the dry season haze that this year has tainted air as far afield as Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. - Photo: AFP file

JAKARTA: (Bernama) Indonesia continues efforts to extinguish underground peat fires, despite rainfall easing firefighting operations in several affected areas.

The Forestry Ministry said high-confidence forest and land fire hotspots nationwide fell to 93 from 147 a day earlier.

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雅加达：（马新社）尽管降雨缓解了几个受灾地区的灭火工作，但印尼仍在继续努力扑灭地下泥炭火灾。

林业部表示，全国高置信度森林和土地火灾热点地区从前一天的 147 个减少到 93 个。

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