Singapore targets three more firms

Singapore's National Environment Agency will issue preventive notices to three more Indonesian companies over forest fires in Kalimantan province sending smoke across the border.

Ten companies now in Singapore's sights

This brings to ten the total number of Indonesian companies Singapore is targeting under its Transboundary Haze Pollution Act to tackle forest fires.

Seven Sumatra firms already notified

Singapore sent preventive measure notices last Friday to seven Indonesian agroforestry companies linked to fires in Sumatra province: PT Bumi Andalas Permai, PT Bumi Mekar Hijau, PT Paramitra Mulia Langgeng, PT Sumatera Alam Anugerah, PT…

Three Kalimantan companies named

The three additional companies in Kalimantan receiving notices are PT Buana Megatama Jaya, PT Mananjung Hayak and PT Baratama Putra Perkasa, linked to fires on their concessions.

What the notices require

The notices require companies to deploy firefighting personnel, stop burning activities, refrain from starting new ones and submit action plans to prevent fires recurring.

Scale of the fire damage

Indonesia's Forestry Ministry recorded more than two thousand twenty square kilometres of burned land between January and July, while the Nusantara Atlas project estimated nearly eight thousand nine hundred sixty square kilometres had burned by…

Singapore warns of enforcement action

Singapore Coordinating Minister K. Shanmugam said the smog was entirely preventable and warned companies they cannot escape scrutiny. He said Singapore will use every legal and regulatory lever including financial penalties and access to financing.

“They may think that they can escape scrutiny. But they should not underestimate the Singapore government's determination to act.”