SIIA’s Chua Chin Wei interviewed on Indonesia’s ratification of ASEAN haze agreement

Indonesia’s ratification of the ASEAN haze agreement is an important milestone, said the SIIA deputy director and fellow Chua Chin Wei. It demonstrates the Indonesian administration’s readiness to coordinate its haze fighting efforts with fellow ASEAN members after a 12-year stalemate due to concerns over sovereignty violations. But the ratification is unlikely to result in more resource deployment immediately as the outgoing Indonesian administration has fixed the budget for 2015, Mr Chua told Today newspaper, 938Live radio and Lianhe Zaobao in a series of interviews.