Vice President Jusuf Kalla has blamed climate change as a contributor to the worsening forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan, which have caused deteriorating air quality not only in Indonesia but also in neighboring countries. Speaking at the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations in New York on Monday, Kalla said the world was in a climate emergency and that the extreme weather caused by climate change had rendered disaster-prone countries even more vulnerable.

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