PETALING JAYA (June 25): Klang MP Charles Santiago has called on Asean countries to come up with more durable solution to the yearly haze problem and put pressure on Indonesia to ratify the Asean Agreement on Trans-boundary Haze Pollution.
"Asean nations, Malaysia included, do not keep up enough pressure to lobby Indonesia to ink the agreement.
"Without Indonesia signing the agreement, there is no point in having the yearly meeting. It's time that Indonesia shoulders the legal obligation," the DAP lawmaker said in a statement today.
The Asean Agreement on Trans-boundary Haze Pollution is an environmental agreement to reduce haze pollution in Southeast Asia and came in force in 2003. All Asean countries except Indonesia have ratified the agreement.
Charles also said Malaysia need not to leave it to Indonesia alone to monitor, regulate or prosecute errant companies.
