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Prabowo Orders Maximum Response to 3-Month Wildfires

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  • President Prabowo Subianto ordered the government to mobilise maximum efforts to extinguish three-month-long wildfires.
  • Indonesia deployed over 60,000 personnel and 48 helicopters and aircraft for water-bombing and weather-modification.
  • Silvered langurs, long-tailed macaques and proboscis monkeys were found dead, with 46 orangutans rescued since August.
  • Haze spread to Malaysia and Singapore, leading Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to urge ASEAN to convene an urgent environment-minister meeting.