‘Like smoking a cigarette’: Indonesia chokes on haze as blazes intensify amid super ‘El Niño’

In Indonesia’s Kalimantan, fires have ravaged tens of thousands of acres, with suffocating smoke reaching Malaysia and putting Singapore on alert

Suwadi can barely see five metres in front of him when he steps outside his home in Indonesian Borneo.

Each breath, he says, feels “like smoking a cigarette”.