WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama on Friday offered personal condolences to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono over the devastating earthquake in Sumatra which killed at least 1,100 people.
"The president expressed condolences for the loss of life and devastation caused by the earthquake in West Sumatra," Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement.
"He received an update from President Yudhoyono on the situation on the ground and reiterated his offer, on behalf of the United States, to do everything we can to help alleviate the suffering and provide assistance to the relief operation."
Gibbs said that Obama had tried several times to reach Yudhoyono before connecting for Friday's five minute call, and said the two presidents plan to see one another at the APEC summit in Singapore in November.
Obama spent part of his childhood living in Jakarta when he was a young boy, after his divorced mother married an Indonesian.
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