Reuters: More than 500 hot spots have been spotted across Indonesia’s Sumatra island, signalling the annual dry-season forest fires and the haze it sometimes carries, a Forestry Ministry official said on Monday. Forestry ministry official fear the number of hot spots could exceed last year’s record as the current dry season will be marked by less rain than usual, Sonny Partono, the director of forest fire control, told Reuters. “According to the Meteorology agency, this year’s dry …