REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian government has conducted coordination with the Philippine government with regard to its plan to send aids to that country after Typhoon Haiyan.

"The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) has been ordered (by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono) to take actions in our capacity as a friendly country, neighbor and common ASEAN member," presidential spokesman Julian A Pasha said here on Sunday.

He said after accompanying the President in a limited cabinet meeting at the Heroes' Cemetery Complex in Kalibata that the process of the aid delivery was still underway under the coordination of BNPB and the foreign ministry.

The Indonesian government is aware of the difficult situation the Philippine government and its people are dealing with and it would continue to coordinate with the Philippine government with regard to aids needed by the Philippines, he said.

President Yudhoyono in his twitter account had also said that the government is still coordinating with the Philippine government with regard to aids it would send there.

"Like what other countries have done when Indonesia was dealing with natural disasters our aids would consist of medical supplies, water, food and others," he said.

The super typhoon has killed thousands of people in the Leyte province in Central Philippines.

Cities in the coastal areas in the province have been devastated after being hit by huge waves caused by the storm since Friday.

Most victims died after being swept by waters carrying debris from buildings and structures hit by the waves like in a tsunami incident.

Tacloban, the capital city of Leyte province with around 220,000 populations had borne the brunt of the typhoon disaster believed to be the strongest even hitting land.

The World Food Agency is reported to have sent 40 tons of biscuits that could feed around 120,000 people a day in additional to emergency aid supplies.

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