The money will be channelled through the International Federation of the Red Cross for chartering helicopters to evacuate the injured and to drop emergency aid into hard-to-reach areas.

Emergency goods such as medicines, food, tents and hygiene kits will also be distributed to those whose homes have been destroyed, the government announced. At least 300 people in a village in central Java have probably been killed by a landslide unleashed by heavy rain, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva said Wednesday.

A torrent of mud slammed into the village of Sijeruk, 370 kilometresmiles) east of the capital Jakarta, in the second disaster caused by monsoon rains to hit Java island this week.

In the district of Jember, about 800 kilometres east of Jakarta, flash flooding had killed 77 people since Saturday, the UN said.

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