Mongabay: Every year, thousands of hectares of Indonesian forest are illegally burned by development companies. However, Indonesias Minister of Environment, Balthasar Kambuaya, is optimistic that legal charges over such fires can be completed even though he has just three months left in office.
I hope [the environment ministry] can complete the tasks [to get the cases to trial]. Although, it also depends on the prosecutors [to try the cases]. We will coordinate with the prosecutors to push the cases...