ABSTRACT

An emerging environmental regime for transboundary haze pollution in ASEAN embraces a number of ASEAN collective actions in response to the haze problem, including the Cooperation Plan on Transboundary Pollution, the Regional Haze Action Plan (RHAP) and the Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution. Before turning to an analysis of regime elements, it is worth mentioning that despite some efforts to call on the government of Indonesia to tackle the problem of forest and land fires during the 1980s, the collective action of ASEAN country members to the transboundary haze only came to fore in 1992, following the haze and fire episodes of 1991.