Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has instructed Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari and Social Affairs Minister Bakhtiar Chamsyah to go to Yogyakarta immediately to deliver relief aid and coordinate help for victims of earthquake which hit the city and its environs on Saturday morning.

"The President is deeply concerned and asked Yogyakarta Governor Hamengkubuwono X to continuously report on quake's victims and damages to the Head of State," a presidential spokesman Andi Malarangeng told the press at the presidential office on Saturday.

Andi said that the President also ordered Indonesian Military ( TNI) chief Air Marshal Djoko Suyanto to send soldiers to the quake- hit cities to help evacuate victims.

President Yudhoyono asked residents of Yogyakarta to remain calm amid rumors on tsunami following the quake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale.

Yudhoyono has planned to visit the quake's victims in Yogyakarta on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie will reportedly leave for Yogyakarta to visit the quake-hit areas later Saturday.

A spokesman of the ministry, Ida Restiawan, said that Aburizal Bakrie accompanied by Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari and Home Affairs Minister Muhammad Ma'ruf would leave for Yogyakarta by a plane from Halim Perdanakusuma air base, East Jakarta.

The ministers would bring food and medicines to the region. They are expected to land at Adi Sumarno airport in Solo, Central Java, as Adi Sucipto airport in Yogyakarta is closed due to damages of the airport's facilities as the impact of the quake.

In his interview with the Indonesian state radio RRI, Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X put the death toll in Saturday's quake and its aftershocks in Yogyakarta and surrounding areas in Central Java at about 250, while thousands of others were injured.

Telecommunication network and electricity supply in Yogyakarta were cut off due to the earthquake, which could be felt at the fifth level of Modified Marcelli Intensity (MMI).

The quake's epicenter was located at 8.826 degrees south latitude and 110.23 degrees east longitude, at the depth of 33 kilometers below the sea level, about 37.6 kilometers of south of Yogyakarta.

Source: Xinhua