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The leaders of Indonesia’s neighbours have offered help<\/a> while steering clear of overt criticism at the highest diplomatic level.<\/p>\n With public anger growing, however, a Malaysian MP last week called for Indonesia to be treated as an “outcast” in the region.<\/p>\n “Indonesia is a polite and patient nation. Our country is often insulted, but believe me, our nation does not want to be insulted all the time,” Prabowo said.<\/p>\n The president said he had asked for investigations into the cause of the fires which he insisted was “not purely natural”.<\/p>\n Experts say Indonesia’s wildfires can be blamed in large part on slash-and-burn land-clearing practices that result in the destruction of fire-resistant forest cover and drained peatlands.<\/p>\n This year, the blazes were intensified by a severe drought fuelled by the El Nino weather phenomenon.<\/p>\n “I am asking the police, the Attorney General’s Office, the Ministry of Forestry, with the support of the Armed Forces and intelligence services, to investigate,” said Prabowo.<\/p>\n “The people have also caught various individuals who deliberately set fires – this is something we can regard as environmental terrorism.”<\/p>\n The president, who marked two years in office Tuesday<\/a> with record-low approval levels, said deliberate fire-setting amounted to “a crime against humanity, because what they have done endangers the health of millions of our citizens”.<\/p>\n Once the evidence is in, he added, “we will revoke all licenses of companies that violate the law”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The leaders of Indonesia’s neighbours have offered help while steering clear of overt criticism at the highest diplomatic level. With public anger growing, however, a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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