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Malaysia Air Pollution in Year 2013 Beijing cough syndrome has faded from people eyes ball replaced with Malaysia air pollution. incident. Malaysia and Singapore are the two country engulfing for recent haze pollution, perhaps these two country have consistently facing the haze threaten for the past few years, but this year, 2013, the situation is getting worst. Malaysia air pollution has caught my attention, especially I had published similar article early this year about the air pollution in China Beijing. I think it would worth for me to write something even the haze has moving away, whose now if it will comes back. Severity of Malaysia Air Pollution In my memory, I did not recall Malaysia announce any emergency status for several state in Malaysia because of air pollution in the country. With the immediate announcement from Malaysia Prime Minister Najib, it shows the country did established with proper system to protect the pupil in the country. Johor, Melacca are 2 Malaysia states have failed air pollution index with most highest reading among the country. Muar Johor did recorded history high with API (Air Pollution Index) = 700, whereby API larger than300 is classified as hazardous status. 211 schools has closed because of air pollution. People are advise to stay indoor and reduce outdoor activity. As my observation, many business or shop were facing the impact because of reduce movement in the town. Causes of Air Pollution in Malaysia Singapore has pointed at the early stage of haze invasion, this follow by Malaysia. The sudden haze are observed because of increase burning hot spots at Riau province at Sumatra Indonesia. From pass experience, the hot spots are the illegal burning at Indonesia to clear the forest in order preparing for planting oil palm.

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Haze has became a chronic issue for these country stay next to Indonesia. Many regulations has been tablet as guideline for the plantation country to follow, unfortunately these regulations are not fully comply. Another reason is because month from June to September every year consider as dry season, and wild forest may caught fire due to some injecting incident. Moving forward for Malaysia Air Pollution Incident Malaysia has established a API monitoring and pulishing mechanism, we can see the government published data in government website, please see Real time Malaysia Air Quality Index. The air quality is improving after Indonesia government taking aggressive action fighting for elimating the fire hot spots. Meanwhile, we also see Indonesia Precident Mr. Susilo Bambang bravely stand out to acknowledge and apology for causing the haze after some silly responses from Indonesia minister at early stage. The minister should have learned from this lesson. Malaysia Air Pollution is Coming Back? If we flip our pass history and data, air pollution in Malaysia 2012, we could easily conclude that the country has similar attack by haze as we encounter this year. The people awareness is one of the reason forcing Malaysia government taking serious approach to discuss the issue with Indonesia. More importance, Singapore government also taking the lead in this incident so this is sometime like joint afford consistently pursue the issue to Indonesia government to take immediate action. Setting up new guideline and agreement is not the priority action for stopping Malaysia air pollution, however we need executable procedure and method (technology) for converting wild forest to plantation. I will keep my eyes open in this and share with you in coming days. Unless we could see a breakthrough in converting forest to plantation, if not as what Murphy Laws say, Malaysia air pollution may come back but with other form.

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