Yosafat Menteng travelled all the way from Kalimantan in Indonesia’s Borneo with five others just to take part in Wednesday’s student protest in the heart of Jakarta. Back home in Palangka Raya, one of the worst-affected cities by the haze, he heads the students’ council at the University of Palangkaraya’s Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. “We in Kalimantan strongly urge the government to declare the forest fires happening in Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua a national disaster,” he said,...
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