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Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla says that Indonesia's forests are being destroyed, and wants foreign countries to pay for the damage.

After an event on Sunday, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla criticized Singapore for trying to prosecute the director of an Indonesian company over the haze which blanketed many parts of Asia. Similarly, Indonesia's Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar who announced the scrapping of bilateral collaborations with Singapore on environmental issues raised the ire and slammed Singapore for showing a lack of respect for Indonesia.

Indonesia wants to reclaim airspace controlled by Singapore within 5 years, according to an ambitious plan by President Joko Widodo, who in recent weeks has been showing off a more muscular foreign policy in the region.

At the APEC Meeting today, Indonesian Vice President blamed the wind for spreading the haze to neighbouring countries, saying it was something beyond Indonesia's control. We can laugh at his warped logic During the 2010 floods in Singapore, PAP said that the flooding was due to nature and no amount of human engineering can overcome nature.

In an interview with Malaysia's Bernama news agency, Indonesian VP Jusuf Kalla told other neighbouring countries to follow the attitude of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who proposed measures to resolve the haze problem rather than just criticize Indonesia.

Speaking to reporters while on an extended trip in New York, Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla responded to the concerns of the Singapore government by saying that Indonesia wants Singapore and regional neighbors to step up and try and solve the widespread burning in Indonesia instead of just expressing concern over the haze.

While speaking to Indonesians in New York yesterday, Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla declared that Indonesia need not apologize to neighboring countries over the haze problem, repeating his now infamous comments about regional neighbors Malaysia and Singapore.

Mr Jusuf Kalla, Vice-President of Indonesia, on Tuesday (Mar 3) took to task neighbouring countries' complaints about the haze. “For 11 months, they enjoyed nice air from Indonesia and they never thanked us. They have suffered because of the haze for one month and they get upset,” The Jakarta Globe quoted Mr Kalla as saying.