Make Jakarta pay for transboundary haze in Asean, says Sarawak deputy CM
KUCHING, Sept 11 — Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri James Masing called on the international community to penalise Indonesia for its forest fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra that are polluting the air regionally.
“Until they suffer economically, they will not take our complaints seriously with their year after year of blanketing the region,” he said when responding to the hazy conditions in South-east Asia. The state Natural Resources and Environmental Board said yesterday that the south-westerly wind caused thick smoke from Kalimantan to blow into Sarawak.
As of yesterday, he had said from satellite images 3,106 hotspots were detected in Kalimantan and 1,198 in Sumatra.
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