Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia has decided to provide relief aid worth US$1 million to Myanmar to help victims of Cyclone Nargis that left around 15,000 people dead or missing and caused serious damage to the country, a presidential spokesman said.
The tragedy reminded President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of the deadly tsunami in Aceh on December 26, 2004, Dino Patty Djalal said at the presidential oOffice here on Tuesday.
"That`s why the president decided to provide US$1 million in aid to Myanmar," he said.
The relief aid which included medicines and food would soon be flown to Myanmar using two Indonesian military (TNI) Hercules planes, he said.
On Tuesday morning, President Yudhoyono contacted an official at the Myanmarese Embassy in Jakarta, Kyi Maung Oo, to ask what the Myanmarese government and people needed, Dino said.
Dino quoted Maung Oo as saying that he still had difficulty contacting government officials in Yangon as communication networks were damaged.
In the phone talks, Maung Oo expressed gratitude to President Yudhoyono for the relief aid, Dino said.
He said the president had ordered the coordinating minister for people`s welfare to coordinate with the TNI chief in dispatching the relief aid.
He said so far there had been no report of Indonesian citizens being among the victims of the natural disaster in Myanmar.
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