Borneo residents struggle as island burns

Borneo residents struggle as island burns

Sudarsono shudders as he inhales from an oxygen tank in his small house in Palangkaraya on Indonesian Borneo, with yellow, acrid wildfire smoke billowing all around. The 57-year-old fell sick after going out with three friends days earlier to fight fires creeping closer to homes on the outskirts of the city in Central Kalimantan province. "I wore a mask, goggles, everything, but I was surrounded by smoke. I went home since I couldn't take it anymore," the construction worker and farmer tells Agence France-Presse. Sudarsono is among more than 11,000 people treated for respiratory infections in Palangkaraya during the months-long wildfire crisis.

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