Unprecedented forest fires have been tearing through Indonesia since September, affecting vast swaths of the country's population -- not to mention its valuable ecosystems. The country's Center for International Forestry Research projects a final cost of
$14 billion in losses to agriculture, forestry, tourism, and transport. Not to mention an increasing burden on Indonesia's public health system as a result of the estimated one and a half billion metric tons of CO? which have
clouded the atmosphere up to 9 November.