Indonesia promises not again puffs

- ,, There is no chance '' that Singapore, Malaysia and the region around it are again covered by a thick layer of smog from forest fires in Indonesia. That the head of a special Indonesian agency promised Friday.

,, I can not guarantee that there will be no fires. But the scale of the fires that cause smog will be much smaller, '' said Nazir Fouad. His agency was set up in January to recover 2.6 million hectares of peatlands in Indonesia, the Singapore newspaper The Straits Times reported.

Large-scale forest fires shrouded Singapore last year for months in a thick layer of smoke, so that schools had to stay and people got breathing problems closed. The fires were mostly lit by landowners who want to be as free land for planting.

Greenpeace responds reluctance on the promise.,, We hope that Indonesia really work is taking to prevent these fires. For now, though there is still harvested on a large scale forest and drained peat ', says the organization.