The big El Niño in the Pacific is having a noteworthy effect on the rainfall over the islands of Indonesia, and Borneo, and Papua New Guinea.
Basically, it isn't raining much. So the burning activities that normally take place on those islands seasonally are not being suppressed, and the smoke is thick, and this is a problem. You can see it in this picture from NASA, featured in this Web discussion: Heavy smoke blankets Borneo
This has happened before, for previous El Niño events. But nonetheless, this is pretty bad.
President Obama and the Indonesia president are discussing it. But as the article notes, it's one thing to talk about it and another thing to do something effective about it. The latter is going to be difficult to do in Indonesia.
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