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Indonesia’s Jokowi Seeks to Slow Forest Fire Devastation

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Jan 12, 2018
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Over the past two decades, forest fires have become a seasonal phenomenon in Indonesia, destroying some of the most diverse flora and fauna on the planet and blanketing Southeast Asia with a choking haze as smallholders and large corporations both have put millions of hectares of old-growth to the torch.

The fires, to clear land for plantations of palm o…

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