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Indonesia's president to cut short U.S. trip due to haze crisis - palace official


    JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's president Joko Widodo will return earlier than planned from an official trip to the United States due to a haze crisis at home, a palace official said on Monday.

    Indonesia and the region have been suffering for weeks from haze caused by smouldering forest fires in Sumatra and Borneo that authorities have struggled to contain.

    "The president will return a day earlier and will not to going to the west coast of the U.S.," Cabinet Secretary Pranomo Anung told Reuters by phone.

    (Reporting by Kanupriya Kapoor; editing by John Stonestreet)