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Article

15 Aug 2005

Author:
Irwan Firdaus, Associated Press

Indonesia fires fueled by poverty

Poverty, profits and old farming traditions combined to spark massive Indonesian fires that have choked parts of Malaysia with noxious haze, in what officials describe as Southeast Asia's worst ecological crisis in years...The fires, mostly set by plantation owners, logging companies and poor farmers, keep burning year after year on Indonesia's Sumatra island and its portion of Borneo.