Jakarta Globe, Nov 02, 2014
Jakarta. Thick haze, usually caused by forest fires, on Saturday made a comeback in parts of Central Kalimantan that had just experienced a smoke-free week.
Haze at a airport in South Sulawesi, in this Oct. 6, 2014, file photo. (Antara Photo/Herry Murdy Hermawan) |
Jakarta. Thick haze, usually caused by forest fires, on Saturday made a comeback in parts of Central Kalimantan that had just experienced a smoke-free week.
The Sampit
area East Kotawaringin district was blanketed in smoke so thick that flights
had to be diverted.
“The air
here in East Kotawaringin district was free of haze for a week, but since
Saturday the haze has come back and blanketed Sampit,” Sumi, a resident, told
state-run news agency Antara on Sunday.
Fadlian
Noor, head of East Kotawaringin’s Communications and Informatics Office, said
visibility was just 10 meters — a far cry from the minimum of 2,000 meters for
safe flight movements.
“The haze
seems to have gotten worse — so bad that flights coming here have had to be
diverted,” he said, as quoted by Antara on Sunday.
“Yesterday
there was even a flight from Jakarta [to Sampit] that had to be diverted all
the way to Surabaya [in East Java] because of the haze,” he added.
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