Indonesia wildfires August 2026
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Volunteers defuse Indonesia's wildfire 'carbon bombs'
Kalimantan lost almost 160,000 hectares of forest area in 2025, more than one-third of Indonesia's nationwide total.
The transnational haze crisis is the region's worst in more than a decade.
Dwi Sujatmoko is a 35-year-old volunteer firefighter who has spent more than a month fighting the fires.
Malaysia declares emergency in Sarawak as haze from Indonesia worsens
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered the suspension of classes in Metro Manila and more than a dozen provinces on Friday due to haze.
The emergency declaration in Serian followed a formal request from the Sarawak Disaster Management Committee.
Singapore announced it would start providing daily haze advisories from Friday evening after 24-hour air quality readings entered the unhealthy range for the first time since 2023.
Orangutan mother and infant rescued from wildfire-hit forest in Indonesia
Nine orangutans have been evacuated in Ketapang district in less than a month.
A mother orangutan and her infant were rescued from a forest threatened by wildfires in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Indonesia wildfires crisis
Wildfires have been burning for more than a month across Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Java, and Papua.
Volunteer firefighter Anas Dwi Wahyu Kurniawan said the fires this year are similar in scale to those in 2016.
Indonesia's Health Ministry says 3.4 million people are at risk of respiratory infections due to exposure to the fires.