NEW YORK (Antara): The United Nations' humanitarian bodies would send relief aid for flood victims in Jakarta and suburban areas.
The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has identified goods and emergency tools needed such as food, clean water, clothes, blankets, medicines, and search and rescue (SAR) equipment and teams, a press statement from the UN said on Monday.
Official of the UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator Margareta Wahsltrom said that the United Nations in cooperation with a number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and countries, who were going to provide assistance for flood-hit Indonesia,were currently monitoring the situation in the flood aftermath.
The UN relief aid would involve the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), UNICEF, the World Food Program (WFP), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Information from the Jakarta Police on Tuesday morning said that the death toll in five days of floods in Jakarta and environs climbed to 36, consisting of 26 in Jakarta, 6 in Tangerang and 4 in Bekasi.
Several areas of Jakarta have been inundated following days of torrential rains which caused some of the rivers and canals whichcriss-cross the city to burst their banks.
The floods since Thursday have forced around 300,000 to take refuge to safer areas.
Australia's contribution of A$150,000 (US$117,000) would provide thousands of emergency food parcels and hygiene kits to be distributed by the Indonesian Red Cross, Ambassador Bill Farmer said in a statement.
The US embassy said it would give $100,000 in emergency assistance through the Red Cross and other organizations to provide emergency supplies and items such as plastic sheets, cooking utensils and sleeping mats.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife, Ani Yudhoyono, visited flood-affected areas in Kampung Melayu, East Jakarta, on Friday and talked with flood victims sheltered in the Santa Maria school compound in Jatinegara Barat.
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