Making life difficult for locals, thick haze continued to cover a city on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Monday due to forest and peatland fires.
In the first time Kurniawati has left the house since the air quality in the city deteriorated, she went to one of the health centers to get pure oxygen.
State meteorologist Bibit Suryanto said air quality in the region will not improve in the next few days as there are no signs of rain.
According to him, there were 701 hotspots in the southern area of Sumatra, where some of the smoke was carried by wind to Riau.
The ministry said the burned peatland reached more than 80,000 hectares and as of Aug. 31, the overall burned area reached 238,000 hectares.