THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY ON TRANSBOUNDARY HAZE: A COMPARISON STUDY AMONG MALAYSIA, INDONESIA AND SINGAPORE

The aim of this paper was to indicate the role of international political economy on widespread of transboundary haze issues in Southeast Asia. Haze pollution density and extent is so great at the source till its remain worsening even in neighbouring country's airspace or called transboundary haze issues in Southeast Asia. Data for this study were obtained from Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore's existing literatures on transboundary haze. The methodology heavily relied on existing previous literatures on the subject being dealt with. The findings indicate that technology could be more practical rather than diplomacy and regulation. From technology, the inventions of tools and technique to prevent air pollution and how to fastly detect and react to haze issues are seems relevant. It also demonstrate that government represents haze mitigation progress through haze healing rather than cure. Face mask and cloud-seeding were preferable alternative during haze occurrence rather than haze prevention