The minister cited an incident last week where some 170 hikers stranded in Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park due to forest fires were rescued. Earlier in August, a fire burned for nearly a week at the same national park, razing around 550 hectares of land, BBC reported.
He did not say when the closures would last until.
Indonesia is battling fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra, where “widespread hotspots” were reported by the ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre on Tuesday.
“Moderate to dense transboundary smoke plumes were observed to cover the North, West and Central Kalimantan, Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and parts of Palawan and Panay, the…
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