Indonesia’s third richest family has donated S$1 million ($783,000) to the Japanese government as it attempts to deal with the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami disaster.
The Indonesian government also donated $2 million, Kyodo reported.
The Tokyo-based news agency reported that Elaine Low, 24, daughter of Low Tuck Kwong, owner of Bayan Resources, gave the Japanese Ambassador in Singapore Yoichi Suzuki a check for S$1 million.
The family has a reported wealth of $3.6 billion.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, speaking during an interview with Japanese media, said the government’s donation would be delivered to visiting Japanese parliamentary deputy minister for foreign affairs Makiko Kikuta on Wednesday.
‘’I will be announcing later this afternoon a modest, but at the same time, genuine contribution of financial support of US$2 million to the emergency relief efforts in Japan,’’ Natalegawa was quote by Kyodo as saying.
‘’It is a modest amount, but it is meant to reflect how genuinely we feel in having solidarity with Japan in their hour of need,’’ he said.
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