Two Turkish C-130 cargo planes, carrying relief aid for the people affected by earthquake and tsunami, arrived in the Indonesian city of Palu, Central Sulawesi, on Tuesday night.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Turkish Red Crescent said the aid included 1,000 sleeping bags and 250 tents for the victims.
The planes also brought three volunteers of Turkish Red Crescent and two staffers of Turkish Emergency and Disaster Management Authority (AFAD). Both institutions will work together to distribute the aid.
Previously, the Turkish Red Crescent sent $10,000 worth of assistance to the victims.
"The assistance was handed over to the Indonesian Red Cross for emergency needs," Ali Akgul, the Turkish Red Crescent representative in Palu, told Anadolu Agency.
Turkey sent two aircrafts loaded with humanitarian aid supplies to the disaster-hit region in Indonesia on Tuesday.
Turkey sends humanitarian aid to quake-hit Indonesia
The charity group of Turkey's top religious authority was the first to deliver aid to the disaster-hit people of Lompio, a small region in Indonesia.Abdullah Ucak, a humanitarian aid expert at Turkiye Diyanet Foundation (TDV), told Anadolu Agency that the foundation was the first to reach the area located in the Donggala Regency.Ucak said a month's worth of aid supplies consisting of basic needs, including food and personal care items, was distributed to some 1,040 families.He recalled that he reached Lompio together with Selahattin Karabostan, another expert, on the fourth day of the earthquake -- which struck Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island on Sept. 28 -- and carried out a needs analysis.Video: Turkey sends humanitarian aid to quake-hit IndonesiaAfter the analysis we immediately initiated aid efforts, Ucak added.He also said help was underway in an extensive area in the quake-hit region for those who face difficulties in meeting their basic needs, particularly in rural areas.On Sept. 28, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Sulawesi Island, which triggered a tsunami in Donggala and Palu cities that towered up to 10 feet (3 meters) high.The disaster has caused over 2,000 deaths, according to military authorities in the region on Tuesday.The death toll is feared to rise as at least 5,000 people were still missing, according to Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB).Search for survivors continues in IndonesiaTurkish humanitarian aid arrives in quake-hit IndonesiaHealth fears turn from injury to disease as Indonesia quake toll rises above 2,000
Turkish agency first to aid quake-hit Indonesia's Lompio