Indonesia sends more aid, rescuers to Myanmar

Members of the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) prepare to exhibit their equipment on Thursday before attending the departure ceremony for Indonesia's humanitarian aid mission to Myanmar following the earthquake, at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Base in Jakarta. - Photo: AFP

JAKARTA: Indonesia on Thursday (April 3) dispatched some 100 tonnes of aid, including medicines, sanitation tools and other basic needs, to disaster-stricken Myanmar, alongside another search and rescue team consisting of 69 personnel.

The aid was sent under President Prabowo Subianto’s directive as a form of “solidarity from the people of Indonesia”, said Foreign Minister Sugiono at the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base in East Jakarta.