{"id":19461,"date":"2020-06-18T15:40:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T06:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/18\/indonesia-creates-artificial-rain-to-prevent-repeat-of-devastating-fires"},"modified":"2020-06-18T15:40:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T06:40:45","slug":"indonesia-creates-artificial-rain-to-prevent-repeat-of-devastating-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19461","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia creates &#8216;artificial rain&#8217; to prevent repeat of devastating fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haze from last year\u2019s fires forced airports and schools to close, and are thought to have cost the economy at least $5.2bn<\/p>\n<p>The Indonesian government is deploying artificial rains ahead of the dry season\u2019s peak as the country attempts to prevent a repeat of the devastating fires that ravaged millions of acres of forests and land last year.<\/p>\n<p>Toxic haze was spewed across south-east Asia, forcing the closure of airports and hundreds of schools, and prompting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/12\/indonesia-forest-fires-spark-blame-game-as-smoke-closes-hundreds-of-malaysia-schools\">diplomatic spat with Malaysia<\/a> in September last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/18\/indonesia-creates-artificial-rain-to-prevent-repeat-of-devastating-fires\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haze from last year\u2019s fires forced airports and schools to close, and are thought to have cost the economy at least $5.2bnThe Indonesian government is deploying artificial rains ahead of the dry season\u2019s peak as the country attempts to prevent a repeat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722,41,65,156,723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-indonesia","category-wildfires"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19462,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19461\/revisions\/19462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}