'Dangerous' air pollution in Indonesia's Borneo leads to school closures

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Schools in two cities in the Indonesian part of Borneo island will be closed for a week after smoke from forest fires caused air quality to hit ...

The air pollution index in Palangka Raya, the capital of Borneo's Central Kalimantan province, hit 500, or"dangerous", on Sunday, data from Indonesia's Environment and Forestry Ministry showed.

"From our observation, the smoke is very thick in Palangka Raya and Sampit," Slamet Winaryo, the head of Central Kalimantan's education agency, said by telephone.

 

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