25 countries and international organizations were to attend the summit on tsunami in Jakarta on January 6, and to discuss aids program for Asian countries suffering from the natural disaster, media reported on Tuesday.

Included are ten member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN), Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, South Korea, the United States, India, Sri Lanka, Maldive, Canada, European Union, the United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank and Asian Development Bank.

The U.N. Secretary General Kohfy Annan is to present in the summit and would visit Indonesia from Jan. 5 to 8.

He is to go to Aceh province on Jan. 7.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said that the meeting would be conducted following the sporadic respond of the international community on the tsunami hit the south Asia and the southeast Asia.

"We see there is a need to sit together. The conference allowed the suffered countries to show their real condition and how to overcome it," Wirajuda said as quoted by the Kompas daily.

An extremely powerful earthquake of 8.7 at Richter degree shocked many parts of countries around Indian Ocean on last Sunday, killing at least 140,000 people in the region, more than a half of the casualties are in Indonesia.

Source: Xinhua