According to a press release received here on Monday, Kalla, former vice president, said readiness could reduce the number of casualties and infrastructure damage after an earthquake and tsunami hit a certain area.
Earlier, Japan`s National Police Agency, responsible for compiling statistics from different prefectures affected, said that 9,811 people had been confirmed dead and 17,541 officially listed as missing -- a total of 27,352 -- until Thursday (March 24) 9:00 pm (1200 GMT), while a total of 2,779 people have been injured.
The quake has become Japan`s deadliest natural disaster since the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, which killed more than 142,000 people. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes and have taken shelter in emergency facilities.
Meanwhile, Indonesia itself had experienced several big quakes, and the biggest one had happened in Aceh province last December 2004 where around 126,000 people were killed due to an earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale and a subsequent deadly tsunami.
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