- Four people have been killed and two severely injured after becoming trapped by wildfires in East Java, Indonesia.
- Indonesia is experiencing its worst forest and land fires in over a decade, with satellite-detected hotspots rising to 799 and nearly 900,000 hectares burned.
- Protests have erupted in Central Kalimantan demanding that the government declare a national disaster and deploy water-bombing helicopters.
- The resulting toxic smog has led to a sharp increase in health issues, with respiratory illness cases across seven provinces more than doubling to over 280,000.
- President Prabowo Subianto has agreed to accept foreign assistance from neighbouring countries, including Malaysia and Singapore, to help tackle the crisis.
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