{"id":14209,"date":"2015-11-05T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14209"},"modified":"2015-11-05T14:40:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T19:40:10","slug":"will-indonesian-fires-spark-reform-of-rogue-forest-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14209","title":{"rendered":"Will Indonesian Fires Spark Reform of Rogue Forest Sector?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Indonesian Fires Spark\u00a0Reform of Rogue Forest Sector?<\/a><\/h3>\n

Massive fires in Indonesia caused by the burning of forests and peatlands for agriculture have shrouded large areas of Southeast Asia in smoke this fall. But analysts say international anger over the fires could finally lead to a reduction in Indonesia\u2019s runaway deforestation.<\/em><\/p>\n

The fires that blazed in Indonesia\u2019s rainforests in 1982 and 1983 came as a shock. The logging industry had embarked on a decades-long pillaging of the country\u2019s woodlands, opening up the canopy and drying out the carbon-rich peat soils. Preceded by an unusually long El Ni\u00f1o-related dry season, the forest fires lasted for months, sending vast clouds of smoke across Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n

Fifteen years later, in 1997 and 1998, a record El Ni\u00f1o year coincided with continued massive land-use changes in Indonesia, including the wholesale draining of peatlands to plant oil palm and wood pulp plantations. Large areas of Borneo and Sumatra burned, and again Southeast Asians choked on Indonesian smoke.
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Ulet Ifansasti\/Getty Images<\/div>\n
Smoke last month in South Sumatra, Indonesia, from illegal burning of forests and peatlands.<\/div>\n

In the ensuing years, Indonesia\u2019s peat and forest fires have become an annual summer occurrence. But this summer and fall, a huge number of conflagrations have broken out as a strong El Ni\u00f1o has led to dry conditions, and deforestation has continued to soar in Indonesia. Over the past several months, roughly 120,000 fires have burned, eliciting sharp protests from Singapore and other nations fed up with breathing the noxious haze from Indonesian blazes.<\/p>\n

The pall of smoke still drifting over Southeast Asia is the most visible manifestation of decades of disastrous policies in Indonesia\u2019s corrupt forestry and palm oil sectors.<\/p>\n

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Will Indonesian Fires Spark\u00a0Reform of Rogue Forest Sector? Massive fires in Indonesia caused by the burning of forests and peatlands for agriculture have shrouded large areas of Southeast Asia in smoke this fall. But analysts say international anger over the fires could finally lead to a reduction in Indonesia\u2019s runaway deforestation. The fires that blazed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,252,2582,1444,1595,2205],"class_list":["post-14209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-agriculture","tag-el-nino","tag-fire","tag-indonesia","tag-logging","tag-southeast-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14210,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14209\/revisions\/14210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}