GEORGE TOWN: Indonesia should compensate for losses incurred from the worsening haze in the country.
Deputy Women, Family and Community Development minister Senator Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun said this, adding that this was the morally right thing to do.
"Hawkers are selling 30 per cent lesser; people are missing their flights, schoolchildren skipping school. It is high time we get compensated.
"I understand the hardship that many are going through in these trying times," she said after officiating the Penang MCA Mid-Autumn Festival gathering at Jalan Transfer here today.
Chew said she, too, was a victim of the haze as she had missed two flights this morning.
"I was supposed to be in Perlis and Kedah, but all flights were cancelled due to haze," she added.