Wildfires tearing through Indonesian Borneo have already burned more than 200,000 hectares of land this year, forcing desperate public appeals on social media for international firefighting help as smoke from West Kalimantan drifts across the border and chokes Malaysia's Sarawak state.
One widely shared appeal describes the region's rainforest as 'a vital lung of the Earth' and calls on the EU, UK, China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore to send fire suppression technology, monitoring tools and cost assessments.
