Indonesia's environment minister said on Friday some forest fires in its te...
JAKARTA - Indonesia’s environment minister said on Friday some forest fires in its territory had started on land used by subsidiaries of Malaysian companies, as the neighbors traded blame for blazes that have spread haze across the region.
Indonesia has dismissed those accusations saying fires have broken out in other countries - and Environment Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar told Reuters some of the fires in Indonesia had been spotted in palm oil plantations owned by at least four subsidiaries of Malaysian companies.Two of the Malaysian parent companies said their subsidiary’s plantations had not been sealed off as a result of any fires and they were on high alert for blazes.
IOI said its subsidiary, Sukses Karya Sawit , had not received any official notification on its land being sealed off. But it said several small fires had been extinguished in recent months.
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