Coal fires in Indonesia

✍ Scribed by Alfred E Whitehouse; Asep A.S Mulyana

• Book ID: 104013026
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 96 KB
• Volume: 59
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0166-5162
• DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2003.08.010

✦ Synopsis

Indonesia's fire and haze problem is increasingly being ascribed to large-scale forest conversion and land clearing activities making way for pulpwood, rubber and oil palm plantations. Fire is the cheapest tool available to small holders and plantation owners to reduce vegetation cover and prepare and fertilize extremely poor soils. Fires that escaped from agricultural burns have ravaged East Kalimantan forests on the island of Borneo during extreme drought periods