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'Clean air nowhere to be found': Indonesian government faces lawsuit over forest fires

ABC News
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FiresLaw, Crime and Justice

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  • the headline was changed: 'Clean air nowhere to be found': Indonesian government faces wildfires lawsuit as haze blankets regionover forest fires

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A group of civil society organisations in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province has filed a class action lawsuit against the national government over its handling of wildfires in the region.

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  • The headline puts “Clean air nowhere to be found” in quotation marks. Nobody says those words anywhere in the report.

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The fires in West Kalimantan started in July.
The fires in West Kalimantan started in July.

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