Mongabay iconMongabaySep 15, 2026

Wildfires on doorstep of Indonesia’s new capital as environmental and health crisis flares

PENAJAM PASER, Indonesia — Indonesia’s escalating wildfire crisis has reached the outskirts of Nusantara, the new capital city under construction as the world’s fourth-most-populous country seeks to transplant its political heartland from a flood plain in Java to the island of Borneo. Fires in mid-September burned 30 t

Wildfires on doorstep of Indonesia’s new capital as environmental and health crisis flares

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