“Monday’s Oval Office meeting between President Obama and Indonesian President Joko Widodo, known as “Jokowi,†offers the nation where Obama once lived a chance to elevate its profile and appeal to foreign investors. But as raging forest and peatland fires in Indonesia pour huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, the environmental destruction highlights the challenge both leaders face in curbing climate change.”
via Indonesia’s climate crisis rages as its president meets with Obama on Monday – The Washington Post.