A mountain of rubbish in Indonesia has been on fire for more than a week
Environmental activists say the blaze is a symptom of the country's growing waste crisis.
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"This is a time bomb of accumulated waste management problems that have been ignored for years without fundamental improvements."
— Wahyu Eka Styawan , Activist
"Efforts to extinguish the landfill fire required special handling because the blaze was not on the surface but rather smouldering inside the heaped rubbish."
— Djohan Darmawan , Executive
Key People
Djohan Darmawan is the Director of Emergency Operations Control Coordination at the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) in Indonesia.
Wahyu Eka Styawan is a campaigner with the Indonesian non-governmental organisation Forum for the Environment (Walhi).
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Environmental activists say the blaze is a symptom of the country's growing waste crisis.
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