Indonesia punishes 23 firms over forest fires
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Jakarta
INDONESIA is punishing more than 20 companies in an unprecedented move for starting deadly forest fires that killed 19 people, a government official said on Tuesday.
Three companies have been shut down permanently after having their licences revoked over their role in the blazes that choked vast expanses of South-east Asia with acrid haze and cost Indonesia US$16 billion.
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