Blazing the Wrong Trail: Indonesia's Climate Fueled Fires The deployment of 1,500 soldiers and six helicopters to combat wildfires in Borneo is a stark reminder of the escalating crisis unfolding across Southeast Asia.
As climate driven droughts intensify, Indonesia finds itself facing a perfect storm of environmental degradation and human neglect.
Fires have ravaged over 200,000 hectares of land on the Indonesian side of Borneo, an area roughly three times the size of Jakarta.