"Indonesia's President Cuts Short U.S. Trip Due To Haze Crisis"

"JAKARTA/WASHINGTON -- Indonesia's president Joko Widodo will return early from an official trip to the United States due to a haze crisis caused by raging peat fires in the Southeast Asian country, the government said.

Indonesia and the wider Southeast Asian region have been suffering for weeks from smoke caused by smouldering forest fires in Sumatra and Borneo islands that authorities have struggled to contain.

'The president will return a day earlier and will not be going to the west coast of the U.S.,' Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung said. Widodo will fly back on Tuesday evening."

Kanupriya Kapoor and Julia Edwards report for Reuters with David Brunnstrom and Valerie Volcivici October 26, 2015.

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"Indonesia's Forest Fires Threaten a Third of World's Wild Orangutans" (Guardian)

"Indonesia's Fires Are Emitting More Carbon Pollution Than the Entire US Economy" (Vice News)

"Indonesia Considers National Emergency Over Forest Fires: VP" (Reuters)

"Palm Oil’s New Frontier Is the Vast Rainforest Covering the World’s Second-Largest Island" (Quartz)

"Indonesia’s Climate Crisis Rages as Its President Meets With Obama On Monday" (Washington Post)

"Indonesia's Fires Labelled a 'Crime Against Humanity' as 500,000 Suffer" (Guardian)

"Why the ‘Biggest Climate Story on the Planet’ Is Happening in Indonesia Right Now" (Washington Post)

"Indonesia's Haze Crisis: the Deadly Pollution That Keeps Getting Worse" (Mashable)