Journalists missing after Indonesian volcanic eruption
Journalists missing after Indonesian volcanic eruption

Journalists missing after Indonesian volcanic eruption





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More than 500 students in Indonesia were hospitalised with food poisoning on Tuesday.
Respiratory illnesses surge as smoke settles over Malaysia’s Sarawak in the region’s worst haze crisis in a decade.

Indonesia sets up shelters for babies, children affected by wildfire smoke
Thousands of Indonesians demand harsher penalties for corruption during protests outside parliament in Jakarta.
Fires severely impacting people’s health in West Kalimantan, with pregnant women and children particularly vulnerable.

Al Jazeera’s Jessica Washington reports from an Indonesian clinic treating children struggling to breathe amid wildfires

Locals on Indonesia’s Borneo Island are struggling to breathe as the smoke from wildfires is turning the air toxic.

Wildfires are raging across Indonesia, affecting at least 10 provinces and blanketing communities in hazardous haze.










Fires between January and July burned more than 200,000 hectares of land, says the government.