Brazil announces 100,000 dollars donation to Indonesia

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian government Friday announced a decision to donate 100,000 U.S. dollars to a fund for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami which hit Indonesia late September.

The donation will be made through the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), which has been assisting the Indonesian government in coordinating logistics, it said.

The donation was announced during a meeting between Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Aloysio Nunes Ferreira and the ambassadors of countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

More than 2,000 were killed, 10,000 more seriously injured and 80,000 left homeless in the natural disaster in Indonesia.