{
  "id": 5495231,
  "title": "Reveal Malaysian firms behind forest fires, Indonesian embassy told",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/reveal-malaysian-firms-behind-forest-fires-indonesian-embassy-told",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-04T04:34:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2026/09/04/reveal-malaysian-firms-behind-forest-fires-indonesian-embassy-told"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Malaysian civil society groups have urged the Indonesian government to disclose the names of all companies, particularly Malaysian-owned ones, involved in regional forest fires and open burning. Heng Kiah Chun, interim country representative for Greenpeace Malaysia, emphasized the necessity of transparency to identify responsible firms and hold non-compliant ones accountable. Both Heng and Brendon Gan, a representative of Haram, a student advocacy group, called for Malaysia to enact a standalone Transboundary Haze Act. Despite Malaysia being an early signatory to the 2002 Asean Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution, the country currently lacks extraterritorial legislation to prosecute local companies operating abroad. Gan urged Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to collaborate directly with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto to exchange data, analysis, and company lists for joint efforts against the environmental crisis. Protesters outside the Indonesian embassy held signs demanding accountability and evidence, chanting slogans against the haze situation.",
  "summary": "Civil society groups demand transparency over open burning and call for Putrajaya to enact the long-delayed Transboundary Haze Act.",
  "key_points": [],
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        "title": "Reveal Malaysian firms behind forest fires, Indonesian embassy told",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/reveal-malaysian-firms-behind-forest-fires-indonesian-embassy-told-5498226",
        "published": "2026-09-04T04:34:59.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/probe-into-malaysian-pilots-rm45m-drug-case-still-ongoing-indonesian",
        "published": "2026-09-04T06:28:51.000Z"
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/malaysian-man-jailed-six-years-in-australia-for-keeping-indonesian",
        "published": "2026-09-04T07:40:11.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}