{"id":40879,"date":"2019-09-18T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T10:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40879"},"modified":"2019-09-18T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T10:23:10","slug":"indonesia-arrests-around-200-as-thick-smog-from-forest-fires-reaches-hazardous-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40879","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia arrests around 200 as thick smog from forest fires reaches hazardous levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Dozens of people have been arrested over suspected involvement in massive forest fires in Indonesia, where thousands of hectares of ecologically rich land have been burned, engulfing the region in a thick toxic haze. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The country&#8217;s National Police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo said Monday that 185 people had been arrested across six provinces hit by fires and four corporations were under investigation. He added that &#8220;99% of the forest and land fires occurred due to human factors.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Fires and ensuing smog are a persistent problem during the summer months caused by slash and burn techniques to clear the land &#8212; the same practice that led to fires in the Brazilian Amazon earlier this year.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Dozens of people have been arrested over suspected involvement in massive forest fires in Indonesia, where thousands of hectares of ecologically rich land have been burned, engulfing the region in a thick toxic haze. The country&#8217;s National Police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo said Monday that 185 people had been arrested across six provinces hit by fires&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}