Indonesia’s haze crisis becomes rallying point for student anger at Prabowo

Yosafat Menteng travelled from Kalimantan on Indonesia’s Borneo island with five fellow students to join Wednesday’s protest in Jakarta against the government’s handling of forest fires that have blanketed parts of Indonesia and neighbouring countries in toxic haze. Back home in Palangka Raya, one of the worst-affected cities by the haze, he heads the students’ council at the University of Palangkaraya’s Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. “We in Kalimantan strongly urge the government to...