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Dessy Sagita
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Fighting to inhale

Friday 13 November 2015

When she was asked if she wanted to go cover Southeast Asia's worst smog disaster in nearly two decades from ground zero, AFP's Jakarta correspondent Dessy Sagita wasn't so sure. Why go to a place where air pollution levels were soaring to up to ten times hazardous levels and a poisonous yellow smog hung over the land? 

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