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.
