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Malaysia's national disaster management agency and its meteorological department are currently preparing schedules for cloud seeding operations in shared border locations, to be coordinated with the Indonesian military.
A drone view shows the Ampera Bridge shrouded in haze from wildfires in Palembang, South Sumatra, August 23, 2026. (Reuters/Abriansyah Liberto)
Indonesia has given Malaysian agencies official permission to enter its airspace to conduct cloud seeding operations, Malaysia's environment minister said on Monday, part of both countries' efforts to combat the haze blanketing the region.Indonesia has been stepping up efforts to slow the spread of haze caused by forest and land fires across several provinces, which this month led to dozens of school closures, including in neighboring Malaysia.
Malaysia's national disaster management agency and its meteorological department were currently preparing schedules for cloud seeding operations in shared border locations, to be coordinated with the Indonesian military, Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister Arthur Joseph Kurup said in a statement, as quoted by Reuters.
