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Comment by grobmeier | Hacker News Reader

It's a shame. I live in Germany, and just heard of this for the first time at HN. I can't believe it... we are discussing stupid things in politics, the refugee "situation", Ukraine and Greece. I even heard of the recent earthquake.

But Indonesia burns? Not even worth a mention. Not a single word.

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I wonder if you trying to be sarcastic, or just follow an immensely narrow set of German media?

Of course e.g. Deutsche Welle was predicting this is coming in July: http://www.dw.com/de/el-ni%C3%B1o-erh%C3%B6ht-feuergefahr-in...

and have kept reporting, e.g. a few days ago: http://www.dw.com/de/die-verheerenden-folgen-der-brandrodung...

FWIW I posted this article on FB and all my American friends had not heard about this problem before either. Most Westerners are not aware of what is happening in Indonesia at all.

For what it is worth I didn't read this comment as sarcastic. I live in Japan, watch the news almost daily, and HN is the first I've heard of it.

Checking in from the US, same here.

Strange. This has been reported e.g. by CNN many times.

Sep 19: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/16/asia/gallery/southeast-asi...

Sep 25: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/25/asia/singapore-haze-indone...

Oct 01: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/01/asia/indonesia-evacuates-b...

Oct 30: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/10/30/indonesia-fig...

And this is just one (albeit major) news provider.

(I have seen this many times reported by my local national broadcaster in Finland. But then maybe I just notice and care because I know people who live in the affected area. E.g. in June this year, Asia Pacific Resources International Limited APRIL announced it will stop forestry work in order to reduce forest fires and conserve nature. http://yle.fi/uutiset/aasian_sellujatti_lopettaa_hakkuut_ind... )

I post this 4 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10480822

I always check hnews + 3 others news sites (like the guardian) just to be well rounded ;)

Well, it's not close to us, so people don't really care. I mean, there's people starving everywhere, but that doesn't make problems like the refugee situation any less urgent. It's all relative...

Yeah and at one point too much bad news mean we tune it out.

I really can't suffer for Indonesia, Greece, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria and many more without going insane.

I live in a country next to you and yes, same situation here. Only very superficial reports about "bad air" in airports etc.

I live in France and it's the same here. Not a word. I don't think you meant it as sarcasm.

I sense sarcasm but I can't be sure...

No, not sarcasm. Not reported at all here.

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