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Prabowo Orders Permit Revocations After Forest Fire Arrests

8/25/2026

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President Prabowo Subianto ordered revoking permits of firms suspected of causing forest fires.
Police arrested 72 individuals alleged to have started forest and peatland fires.
The government deployed an additional 1,500 soldiers and six helicopters to Borneo for firefighting.
Cloud-seeding resumed with 30 helicopters over Kalimantan and 22 over Sumatra.
Air-quality data listed Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Singapore among the world’s most polluted cities.

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President Prabowo Subianto ordered revoking permits of firms suspected of causing forest fires.
Police arrested 72 individuals alleged to have started forest and peatland fires.
The government deployed an additional 1,500 soldiers and six helicopters to Borneo for firefighting.
Cloud-seeding resumed with 30 helicopters over Kalimantan and 22 over Sumatra.
Air-quality data listed Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Singapore among the world’s most polluted cities.