While more severe than recent years, the scale of Indonesia’s forest and land fires so far this year remains well below that seen in 2015, when the country experienced one of its worst fire crises.
Fires torched about 2.6 million hectares in 2015, with roughly 600,000 hectares burnt between January and July that year.
The 2015 fires blazed for more than three months and released 1.75 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas equivalents, according to the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration Earth Observatory.
As of Sep 2, Indonesia’s 2026 fires have released roughly 10 per cent of the greenhouse gas equivalents of the 2015 fires…
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