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Indonesians protest over land-clearing fires

· ≈ Jakarta, Indonesia · confirmed by 2 outlets

Students and activists protested across Indonesia over forest fires linked to land clearing for palm oil plantations.

Location
≈ Jakarta, Indonesia · Indonesia live map
Coordinates
≈ 6.21°S 106.85°E
Reported
20 Oct 2026, 13:23 UTC
Category
Unrest & politics · Unrest
Impact
2 of 5 · Notable
Situation
Indonesia fires
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Months of Indonesian fires blanket Southeast Asia in haze; fires spread across New Guinea

On Thursday NASA reported unusually high fire emissions on both sides of New Guinea, where human-set fires are spreading through drought-parched land. Earlier, on Tuesday, the BBC reported from Borneo that months of fires in Indonesia have covered Southeast Asia in haze and made hundreds of thousands of people sick.

  • NASA reports unusually high fire emissions across New Guinea.
  • The fires there are human-set and are burning in a landscape parched by drought.
  • Haze from Indonesian fires has sickened hundreds of thousands of people, the BBC reports.
Updated 23 Oct 2026, 13:29 UTC · Written by Claude from the reports on this page and on the map. Check the linked sources for full details.

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