Our NEA has alerted the Indonesian Ministry of Environment. I wonder what the Malaysians who are getting it worse have done. I wonder if the Indonesian would care when even at the ministerial level there was scant progress in the past. You have to work with the local government. Nearer home I wonder why Vivian Balakrishnan has not spoke to the public on this subject. He does not seem to possess a keen political sense. Didn't he picked a quarrel with the WP when we were all focused on fighting the Dengue scourge? I am not surprised he has not yet spoken.
The silent and un-communicated message is that we are to bear with this. Unless the wind changes direction it could be a while. What about our air quality needs and also economic interest? And there is SDP ill considered and persistent proposal to cut back our defence spending. Don't we need that as a big stick never mind almost never used, while we speak softly?
Update: 8:40pm
The PSI here has hit 140. I went to check what's the situation in Malaysia. Seems they are not really getting it very bad.
The Star newspaper has far better report than our ST. At least it tells us what could be expected and what are the platforms already established to look into this issue. It would be helpful for our MSM to remind us about these again. I assume many like myself have forgotten.
Why do people bother to complain about bad air index 155! Is been like this the last 10 years, same shit every year, and is biz-as-usual for Indonesia. That is something we can't control (other than a mask perhaps) but we can control dengue. It's crossed 10,200+ cases now and projected to go to 15k. Imagine the carpet bombing and fogging they will do on top of the haze? Yet the old CEO that has stirred the AHPETC shit is leaving and the new CEO is on board (?) just about the right time when all is out of control. See who needs to clean up his act now.
ReplyDelete//Ministry official Hadi Daryanto attempted to shift some of the blame onto Malaysia and Singapore, saying their palm oil companies that had invested in Indonesia were also responsible.
ReplyDelete“We hope the governments of Malaysia and Singapore will tell their investors to adopt proper measures so we can solve this problem together,” he said.//
More deflecting. Ok, so let's name them. Wanna guess who are these investors?