JAKARTA: An Indonesian official has been mocked online after claiming the country's forests supply oxygen to Malaysia and Singapore despite recurring haze from its own forest and land fires.
"We do not just send smoke, but when there is no smoke, we send oxygen," Indonesian Government Communications Agency chief Syahganda Nainggolan said in a now-viral video.
"The oxygen in Singapore and Malaysia also comes from our forests," he said in the video published on Saturday.
The remarks drew scorn from social media users, with one sarcastically asking whether Syahganda thought Malaysia was on Mars.
