ASEAN Beat | Environment | Southeast Asia

Schools Close Across Sarawak Due to Toxic Haze From Indonesian Wildfires

Wildfires have raged for weeks across swathes of Sumatra and Kalimantan, exacerbated by a particularly severe dry season.

Transboundary haze hangs over the city of Alor Setar, the capital of Kedah State in peninsular Malaysia, Oct. 3, 2015.

Hundreds of schools across the Malaysian state of Sarawak have closed their doors because of hazardous haze from ongoing wildfires in neighboring Indonesia.

Sarawak, which runs along the north of the island of Borneo, is currently under a pall of air pollution that is among the worst it has seen this decade. On September 3, Malaysian authorities declared an emergency in Serian Division, a region in the southwest of Sarawak bordering Indonesia, after air pollution levels hit critical levels.

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Hundreds of schools across the Malaysian state of Sarawak have closed their doors because of hazardous haze from ongoing wildfires in neighboring Indonesia.

Sarawak, which runs along the north of the island of Borneo, is currently........

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