Indonesian wildfire haze forces 1.4 million students to move to online learning

Approximately 1.4 million students in six Indonesian provinces have transitioned to online learning due to poor air quality caused by forest and land fires. As of September 2, this remote learning arrangement affected around 1.43 million students from 12,874 schools in the most severely impacted provinces. These provinces include Riau, Jambi, and South Sumatra on Sumatra island, and West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, and South Kalimantan on Borneo. An education ministry official, Gogot Suharwoto, confirmed these figures. Indonesia is increasing its efforts to control the haze resulting from these wildfires.