Singapore issues haze notices to Indonesian firms as fires burn more than two million hectares

23 October 2026

Haze from Indonesia's worst wildfires in a decade has covered skies in Malaysia and Singapore for about two months, with the fires estimated to have burned more than 2 million hectares.
Singapore's National Environment Agency has issued notices to 10 Indonesia-based firms this season under the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act of 2014, which allows prosecution of overseas activity and fines of S$100,000 a day up to S$2 million.
No company has yet been prosecuted under the Act.
The ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution was signed in 2002 and is legally binding on ASEAN's 11 members, but it has no judicial enforcement body and disputes can only be settled through negotiation.
The agreement's coordinating office in Jakarta opened in April 2026, nearly 25 years after it was envisioned.
Malaysia has said it could consider a similar law, having abandoned such a proposal in 2023.