"South-East Asia's haze: Indonesia arrests seven suspects", 18 Sept 2015

Indonesian police have detained seven people whose companies are allegedly connected with illegal agricultural fires that have cloaked South-East Asia in haze, in rare arrests over the annual smog outbreaks. They were arrested…on Indonesia's Sumatra island, where authorities have been battling smog-belching blazes which were started to clear land for palm oil and pulp and paper plantations, national police chief Badrodin Haiti said…Tens of thousands have fallen ill in parts of Indonesia as the haze thickened over the past fortnight, and the smog has led to unhealthy air quality and reduced visibility in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia…President Joko Widodo pledged this week to crack down on companies and individuals behind the fires, and hundreds of extra police and investigators have been sent to haze-hit areas to hunt for those responsible…