Officials in neighbouring countries accused Indonesian officials of doing nothing to stop the fires, though forestry ministry officials said they had firefighters working to douse the blazes on state-controlled land. However, they conceded, most of the fires were on private land.[10] Indonesia planned to deploy its military to aid fire fighting effort.[11] To recruit more people to man the fire line, the government offered two days off for civil servants who volunteered for fire duty.[12] But the country lacked equipment for fighting forest fires, having aeroplanes that were too small to carry enough water to douse the fires.[13] In a bid to obtain bigger aircraft, the government leased two Beriev Be-200 aircraft from Russia, which are capable of skimming over water and taking on loads for sustained firefighting efforts.[14] The planes, which will be flown by Russians and maintained by Russian technicians, were due to begin operations on 1 November.[15]