Indonesia fires: The volunteer firefighters risking their lives to defuse ‘carbon bombs’0

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• September 6, 2026

Indonesia is in the throes of a wildfire catastrophe. Amid a so-called “Super El Niño” that has supercharged local drought conditions, thousands of active fire hotspots are spreading and multiplying across the country, fuelling a transnational haze crisis that is the region’s worst in more than a decade. But what makes Borneo’s fires particularly worrying