JAKARTA, October 7— The perennial issue of transboundary haze has again sparked friction in Southeast Asia, with Malaysia's environment minister writing to the Indonesian government this week calling for a regional response to the toxic smoke drifting across his nation.

JAKARTA, Oct 6 — Malaysia is ready to work together to deal with the forest and land fires raging in several regions of Indonesia if needed, according to the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

JAKARTA, Oct 6 — Indonesia is dousing forest fires with water sprayed from helicopters and inducing rain through cloudseeding, its environment minister said on Friday, but denied that hazardous haze was crossing borders, as neighbouring Malaysia has said.

JAKARTA, Oct 2 — The Indonesian government, via its Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), has denied allegations regarding haze from forest and land fires (karhutla) in Indonesia crossing into Malaysia.

JAKARTA, Sept 6 — The Asean Coordinating Centre for Transboundary Haze Pollution Control (ACC THPC) was inaugurated as part of the agenda of the 43rd Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in Jakarta on Tuesday, reported ANTARA News Agency.