Who’s responsible for Indonesia’s fires?

As fires burn across Indonesia as badly as since the disaster of 1997, blanketing parts of the country and its neighbors in a noxious haze, a variety of assertions have been made as to precisely who and what are responsible for the flames, widely used as a tool for clearing land. On a general level, said Peter Holmgren, CIFOR’s director-general, it’s clear the actors behind the fires come from different segments of society. They are large and small, on-site and off-site. Sometimes the authorities are involved.