Riau to call on firms over renewed haze

PEKANBARU, Riau: The Riau Environmental Impact Management Agency (Bapedalda Riau) is to summon executives of several plantation companies and concessionaires over the return of haze to the province.

Local Bapedalda head Khairul Zainal said on Saturday the agency would question them over the new appearance of 92 hot spots detected by satellites across the province, believed to be the source of the haze.

"We suspect the forest is burning at those points," said Khairul. -- JP