JAKARTA -- Indonesia's failure to warn its people of the tsunami that hit Sulawesi after an earthquake on Friday is being blamed for the rising death toll that has now reached 1,234.
As information from previously inaccessible areas starts to trickle in and the number of casualties continues to climb, government agencies are lamenting a lack of funding to maintain an early tsunami warning system installed after the devastating wave on Boxing Day in 2004. That disaster, on the western coast of Aceh Province in northern Sumatra, killed 226,000 people from 14 countries.
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