Jakarta: National Defense Forces (TNI) Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto instructed his ranks to send soldiers, planes, helicopters, and warship to assist victims of flash floods and landslides in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) provinces.
Indonesian warship KRI Oswald Siahaan (OWA)-354 is on standby to transport relief aid to the victims of natural disaster in the two provinces.
"Today, I have ordered the naval chief of staff for the departure of KRI OWA-354 to carry relief aid from the Health Ministry and the Social Affairs Ministry to East Nusa Tenggara and West Nusa Tenggara," Tjahjanto stated at the Halim Perdanakusuma Airbase in East Jakarta on Tuesday briefly before departing for Natuna.
The TNI will also dispatch Hercules C-130 aircraft and helicopters to assist the victims of the natural disaster.
The Hercules C-130 planes from air squadron 31 at the Halim Perdanakusuma Airbase in Jakarta and air squadron 32 at the Abdulrachman Saleh Airbase in Malang, East Java, will carry soldiers and relief aid.
"The deployment of warship and heavy transport aircraft as well as TNI soldiers to natural disaster-hit areas in East Nusa Tenggara and West Nusa Tenggara is part of the military operation and part of TNI's main tasks," he remarked.
Death toll in the flash floods and landslides amid extreme weather triggered by Tropical Cyclone Seroja in NTT increased to 128 as of late Monday.
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