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Indonesia is battling a surge of wildfires across its archipelago, with helicopters and hundreds of firefighters racing to contain blazes that have burned over 107,000 hectares — including iconic spots like Mount Bromo’s Penanjakan area and Sumatra’s peatlands — as an unusually dry El Niño season fuels the crisis. With no rain-bearing clouds in sight to enable cloud seeding, authorities are relying solely on aerial water bombing and ground crews, while urging citizens to avoid fire-starting activities like burning land or tossing cigarette butts. The fires, often tied to agricultural clearing, threaten neighboring countries like Malaysia and Singapore with hazardous smoke, and Indonesia faces mounting pressure to control the blaze before August and September’s peak fire season.

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