Indonesian expected that its experience in dealing with catastrophes could help China reduce the suffering of its people after the powerful earthquake, said an senior official with the Indonesian health ministry on Monday.
Rahmi Utoro, senior official and expert in the ministry, said this at a ceremony for the launch of humanitarian assistance to China.
"With our experience in handling catastrophes in Indonesia, we hope it can help ease the suffering of the people in China," she said in front of the volunteers, health workers and officials at the ceremony.
Indonesia, which sits on a vulnerable quake hit zone of the Pacific Ring of Fire, has been hit by catastrophes including tsunami in Aceh province in December 2004, earthquake in Central Java in May 2006 and tsunami in West Java in July 2006, which killed hundreds thousand of lives and destructed infrastructures and buildings.
The official said that China was one of the countries which helped Indonesia with logistics and medical assistance when Indonesia suffered from catastrophes.
Indonesia plans to send logistics, medicine and other materials to China on Wednesday and will send a rescue team of more than one hundred people at weekend to China.
The head of crisis center of the ministry Rustam Pakaya said that all the personnel to be sent to China had got experience during several major disasters in Indonesia.
"They have had experience in handling the victims of disasters in Indonesia. The focus of their works are to search and help the victims," Pakaya told reporter after the ceremony.
More than 34,000 have been confirmed dead in the 8.0-magnitude earthquake which rocked Sichuan province of China.
Source: Xinhua
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