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Fires in Indonesia Cause Ecological Crisis

Saturday August 13, 2005 12:46 PM

By IRWAN FIRDAUS

Associated Press Writer

KULIM, Indonesia (AP) - Palm oil farmers have used fire to clear their land of tall grass, shrubs and trees for years, without any idea that the noxious fumes caused problems in neighboring Malaysia or anywhere else.

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About 50 members of the opposition Democratic Action Party demonstrated noisily outside the Indonesian Embassy in Malaysia's main city of Kuala Lumpur on Friday, demanding compensation from Indonesia.

``We are breathing in poison every day. Things have never been this bad,'' DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng said.

The yellowish opaque haze reached its peak on Thursday when pollution levels exceeded hazardous levels over the Klang Valley, comprising Kuala Lumpur, the administrative capital Putrajaya, Port Klang and other cities.

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