During his second term as Vice President, Kalla criticized neighbor nations Malaysia and Singapore for airing their concerns about suffering from the repeated haze caused by Indonesian forest fires, stating in March 2015: "For 11 months, they enjoyed nice air from Indonesia and they never thanked us.
在他作为副总统的第二个任期内，卡拉批评邻国马来西亚和新加坡对于遭受印度尼西亚森林大火造成的反复阴霾的担忧表示担忧，他们在2015年3月表示：“11个月来，他们享受来自印度尼西亚的好空气，他们从不感谢我们。