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In many areas, drainage canals have lowered the water table enough to make peat swamp forests susceptible to fires. In the absence of human activity, Indonesia’s climate is wet enough that wildfires would not occur. Here, workers respond to fire near a drainage canal as smoke obscures trees in the background.
President of Indonesia Joko Widodo meets with Russian President Vladamir Putin. (Photo: Kremlin.ru)