Ships belonging to the Indonesian navy and state-owned shipping company PT Pelni may soon be called up to help with a large-scale evacuation of children in areas of the forest-fire hit Asian country.
Widespread blazes caused by slash-and-burn land clearing activities in Sumatra and Kalimantan have blanketed much of Southeast Asia in a thick, acrid smoke for the past two months and authorities in Jakarta this week admitted that conditions are unlikely to abate for at least a month due to an expected late arrival of the annual monsoon rains.
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