From left to right: Ratri Kusumohartono, Forest Campaigner, Greenpeace Indonesia, Kiu Jia Yaw, an environmental lawyer from Malaysia, Perapong Tekasakul from Prince of Songkla University and Yuyun Wahyuningrum, Representative of Indonesia to ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights speak at Greenpeace Southeast Asia public forum entitled, ‘A Haze-Free ASEAN by 2020. Are We There Yet?’ organised in Bangkok on November 1, 2019.

To avoid the recurrent transboundary haze, Greenpeace Southeast Asia and other civil societies in Southeast Asia called on leaders attending the 35th meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to act with urgency by putting an end to this environmental disaster that has been choking the environment, affecting the health of millions, and causing economic losses in Southeast Asia.

The groups demanded ASEAN member states implement the legally binding Transboundary Haze Agreement of 2016 and enforce accountability especially as forest fires continue to occur and choke parts of Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore, Malaysia and even Thailand and the Philippines.