Yearly endurance test.

Every year SE Asia has a problem with Indonesia.
It's the haze that she emits and forces her neighbours to endure.

Indonesia's neighbours on Thursday urged it to curb the annual haze crisis by cracking down on forest fires, warning that the choking pollution was hurting economies and deterring tourists.

Singapore and Thailand have been affected in recent years along with Malaysia.

"We have to contend that this is something that will happen unless real serious efforts are being put by the governments where the haze originates," Malaysia's Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz said at regional talks in Kuala Lumpur.

The Indonesian government has outlawed land clearing by fire but weak enforcement
means the ban is largely ignored.

Read the words "largely ignored" That's a laugh. Try negligible enforcement. Try hugely corrupt and inefficient patrols. Now try these words : hidden resentment, reined in frustration, barely buried anger.


My government can't say much. But I surely can.