这并非野火首次迫使印尼这一地区的学校转为线上教学。2023年，烟霾导致学校停课约一个月，这仅在冠状病毒大流行迫使人们进入视频课堂几年之后。
This is far from the first time that wildfires have forced schools to shift online in this part of Indonesia. In 2023, smog pushed people out of the schools for roughly a month, only a few years after the coronavirus pandemic forced people into video classrooms.
“但在那之前，我们在2019年、2016年、2015年、2014年都经历过烟霾。当时我们没有Zoom——只能听之任之，像放假一样，”翁达斯先生说。“所有这些意味着，这里的孩子们正在被甩在后面。他们的表现不如其他地区同龄的孩子。”非营利组织印尼慈善协会（PFI）上周发布的一份报告警告称，印尼面临制造一代“迷失的一代”儿童的风险，他们因早期和反复接触野火烟雾，身体和认知能力将永远受到影响。
“But before that we had haze in 2019, in 2016, 2015, 2014. At the time we didn’t have Zoom – we just let it go, like a holiday,” Mr Undas said. “All this means children here are getting left behind. Their performance is lower than children their age from other regions.”In a report last week, the nonprofit group Indonesian Philanthropy Association (PFI) warned Indonesia risks creating a “lost generation” of children whose physical and cognitive abilities will be impacted forever by early and recurrent exposure to wildfire smoke.
“我们正在拿整整一代人赌博，不能允许这场悲剧不断重演，”PFI主席里扎尔·阿尔加马尔在一份声明中说。
“We are gambling with an entire generation and cannot allow this tragedy to keep repeating,” Rizal Algamar, PFI chair, said in a statement.
全国上下对这一局势的愤怒情绪正在升温——邻国马来西亚和新加坡也被烟雾笼罩，它们已告知印尼，印尼为遏制火灾所做的努力还不够。
Anger at the situation is mounting across the country – as well as in neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore, which have been blanketed in fumes and have told Indonesia it’s not doing enough to halt the fires.
印尼政府坚称正在应对火灾，采取了空中投水灭火、实验性人工增雨，并调动了6万名人员。
The Indonesian government insists it’s tackling the blaze, with aerial water bombing, experimental cloud seeding, and the deployment of 60,000 personnel.
据当地媒体报道，国务秘书普拉塞蒂奥·哈迪周二表示：“我们都在竭尽全力。我们已调动地面部队、飞机和志愿者灭火。”但上周从雅加达蔓延到婆罗洲的示威活动中，抗议者表示这还不够。他们敦促总统普拉博沃·苏比安托——他上周二曾宣称“唯一真正的解决办法是下雨”——宣布进入国家紧急状态以调动更多资源，并采取更有力的措施从源头上制止刀耕火种的做法。
“We are all trying our best,” the state secretary, Prasetyo Hadi, said on Tuesday, according to local media. “We have deployed ground troops, aircraft and volunteers to put out the fires.”But in demonstrations that spread from Jakarta to Borneo last week, protesters said this wasn’t enough. They urged Prabowo Subianto – the president, who last Tuesday claimed “the only real solution is rain” – to declare a national emergency to unlock more resources, and take stronger measures to stop slash-and-burn practices in the first place.