The City
Pekanbaru is one of the cleanest big cities in Indonesia and in 2011, received the "Adipura" ('clean city') award in the category of large city for the seventh consecutive time. The city is also notable for its wide main streets. However, Pekanbaru regularly suffers from smoke or smog due to forest fires, particularly in the dry season, since there is very little rain to put the fires out. The fires also can be traced to people simply burning their trash or freshly cut grass. Most of the fires are intentionally started, but often unintentionally grow dangerous.
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