A month after Indonesia ratified the Asean Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution supposedly a turning point in ending the annual haze problems that create havoc in Indonesia and neighboring Singapore and Malaysia massive forest fires are again generating thick haze in Riau and other parts of Sumatra and Kalimantan. The police and courts meanwhile, continue to prosecute small-scale farmers while ignoring or handing down lenient sentences against big plantation companies that start most of the fires. Kompas - October 15, 2014 |