Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla told the on-going international donor's conference Thursday that the country's death toll from the devastating quake triggered tsunami is approximately 100,000.
Indonesia earlier put the death toll at 94,200 coupled with thousands more missing along the coasts of Sumatra island, the seriously hit area in the disaster on last Dec. 26.
At the opening of the Special ASEAN Leaders' Meeting on Aftermath of Earthquake and Tsunami, Kalla said so far up to 1 million people remain homeless on Sumatra and 1 million people have lost their livelihoods.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono earlier the day called for unprecedented relief efforts for the earthquake and tsunami hit countries.
"Our response to this unprecedented catastrophe must be equally unprecedented," he said in an opening speech in the capacity of chairman of the meeting.
The disaster "proves once again that humanity is frail and vulnerable to the forces of our natural environment and it proves that no nation can survive alone," he said.
He also called for more help to children in the affected countries whose lives were heavily affected in the disaster and urged for the creation of a tsunami warning system for the Indian Ocean.
Leaders or their representatives of 26 countries and international organizations are attend the one-day special meeting to discuss the massive relief and reconstruction efforts for the earthquake and tsunami hit countries.
(Xinhua News Agency January 6, 2005)
