Indonesia recorded two other bird flu cases on Monday with one dead, bringing the total death to 56 out of 74 contracted people in the vast archipelago country, the Health Ministry said.

A two-and-half-year-old boy, who died on Monday morning after three days in hospital, and a 35-year woman, were confirmed by the country's laboratory tests positive of having avian influenza, said an official of the anti-bird flu center of the ministry.

Both of them have been treated in the Jakarta's designed bird flu hospital of Sulianti Suroso, the official said.

"The results of their test is positive of bird flu, the boy died at six this morning," she told Xinhua.

The boy, who was from Kerawang in West Java province, had history of contacts with fowls, but the woman, who was from Tanggerang in an outskirt of Jakarta, was still not clear, said the official.

Indonesia, which has been hit the hardest, has become one of the front lines in the fighting against the H5N1 virus.

The concern of the country's top position in term of the number of victims of the virus, has made the bird flu become one of the top agenda of the forthcoming meeting between U.S. President George W. Bush and his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Bogor, a town near Jakarta on Nov. 20, Indonesian presidential spokesman Dino Pati Djalal said.

The huge territory, back yard centered farming and relatively lack budget have hampered the authorities of Indonesia to fighting avian influenza.