Monday, June 24, 2013

Indonesia makes first arrests amid Sumatra fires: two farmers

Workers wear face masks at the haze-covered Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang outside Kuala LumpurBy Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police on Monday arrested two farmers for illegally starting fires to clear land in Sumatra, the first detentions linked to blazes that have blanketed neighboring Singapore and Malaysia with thick smog for days. Police said the two farmers were not linked to any of the eight companies the government suspects are responsible for Southeast Asia's worst air pollution crisis in years. The parent companies of those firms included Malaysia-listed Sime Darby, which has denied wrongdoing. ...


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