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- ↑ Helena Varkkey, The Haze Problem in Southeast Asia (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015), p. 80
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- ↑ "Where there's smoke there's ire: investigating Indo's forest haze - Crikey". crikey.com.au. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
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- ↑ Helena Varkkey, The Haze Problem in Southeast Asia (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015), p. 81
