This prompted Indonesia’s
1999 Forestry Law which prohibits all forms of land clearing by burning, but little progress has been made to
stop the fires. In 2010, Indonesia and four other Southeast Asian countries under the Subregional Ministerial
Steering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution gathered in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan to assess
efforts at haze reduction. The meeting was to build on the efforts made at the last regional meeting in
August, when Indonesia, Thailand, Brunei, Malaysia and host nation Singapore agreed to ban all open
burning. Indonesia believes that the local government needs to be encouraged to coordinate their efforts on
forest and land fire regulations, because a blanket ban is still not agreed upon. Officials agree that there
should be a strong crackdown on violators, but at the same time issued a gubernatorial regulation allowing
controlled burning by some small farmers. They claim that a blanket ban only hurt small producers and hurt
the province’s rice production.4
This prompted Indonesia’s1999 Forestry Law which prohibits all forms of land clearing by burning, but little progress has been made tostop the fires. In 2010, Indonesia and four other Southeast Asian countries under the Subregional MinisterialSteering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution gathered in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan to assessefforts at haze reduction. The meeting was to build on the efforts made at the last regional meeting inAugust, when Indonesia, Thailand, Brunei, Malaysia and host nation Singapore agreed to ban all openburning. Indonesia believes that the local government needs to be encouraged to coordinate their efforts onforest and land fire regulations, because a blanket ban is still not agreed upon. Officials agree that thereshould be a strong crackdown on violators, but at the same time issued a gubernatorial regulation allowingcontrolled burning by some small farmers. They claim that a blanket ban only hurt small producers and hurtthe province’s rice production.4
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