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Page last updated at 13:03 GMT, Friday, 2 October 2009 14:03 UK

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by Biodun Iginla and Xian Wan, BBC News and The Economist. Xian Wan reported from Jakarta

Advertisement Footage shows the moments after a sports hall roof collapsed during karate practice in Padang
International rescue teams are heading to Indonesia in a last-ditch effort to free trapped earthquake survivors.
Experts from the UK, Australia and South Korea were en route to Sumatra, hit by a 7.6-magnitude quake two days ago. Others pledged emergency cash.
More than 1,000 people are already known to have died, the UN says, with thousands thought to remain trapped.
But one survivor was found on Friday: a young woman pulled, barely conscious, from within a collapsed school.
AT THE SCENE Rachel Harvey, BBC News, Padang Heavy diggers move across piles of rubble, slowly shifting the debris. Piledrivers are being used to break up slabs of concrete, and alongside the machinery men pick their way carefully, looking and listening for any sign of life.
They've not yet given up hope here, but the chances of finding anyone else alive must now be fading. Many hundreds of bodies are known to be trapped beneath collapsed buildings, including up to 60 children who were taking part in after school lessons when the earthquake struck.
In the grounds of the main hospital some of the injured are being treated in tents because the wards are full. One surgeon told me there was a desperate need for clean water to maintain levels of hygiene.
Shattered Padang tries to cope The rescue of Ratna Kurnia Sari was a boost to emergency workers in Padang, who were enduring tough conditions as they scrambled to reach survivors.
At least one other young woman was reported to remain trapped close to where the first rescue took place.
But as rescue efforts focused on Padang, aid workers and reporters said that in rural areas thousands more buildings had been destroyed and whole villages flattened.
"From the aerial assessments carried out yesterday, the feedback is, yes Padang city and environs are bad, but once you go outside into the surrounding rural areas, the situation is very seriously grave," said International Red Cross coordinator Christine South, quoted by AFP news agency.
There was still no information for some areas including Mentawai Island, 57km from the coast, she added.
An AP reporter said parts of Pariaman district, to the north of Padang, had virtually no buildings left standing and had received no outside help.
Collapsed school
As many as 3,000 people were still thought to be trapped under rubble in Padang and several other areas, Indonesia's disaster management agency told the Associated Press.
Powered by Daylife Open Live Pictures A partly-destroyed sign is seen at the Ambacang Hotel, affected by the earthquake on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 in Padang, Indonesia. Medical teams, search dogs, backhoes and emergency supplies were flown into the devastated western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island Friday to bolster frantic rescue attempts for thousands buried by a powerful earthquake.
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Medical teams, search dogs, backhoes and emergency supplies were flown into the devastated western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island Friday to bolster frantic rescue attempts for thousands buried by a powerful earthquake." }, { src: "/s/event-4292536/aHR0cDovL25ld3NpbWcuYmJjLmNvLnVrL25vbC9zaGFyZWQvYnNw /hi/live_gallery/img/main/06cMamf0nq3bt.jpg", dateStamp: "02/10/2009 13:36:46", alt: " ", thumbnail: { src: "/s/event-4292536/aHR0cDovL25ld3NpbWcuYmJjLmNvLnVrL25vbC9zaGFyZWQvYnNw /hi/live_gallery/img/main/thumb_06cMamf0nq3bt.jpg", elapsedTime: "01h 23m ago", elapsedMin: "23", elapsedHour: "1", elapsedDay: "0", alt: " "}, caption: "A woman walks at a neighborhood damaged by an earthquake in Pariaman, a coastal town about 40 miles (60 kilometers) northwest of Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude earthquake started at sea and quickly rippled through Sumatra, the westernmost island in the Indonesian archipelago." }, { src: "/s/event-4292536/aHR0cDovL25ld3NpbWcuYmJjLmNvLnVrL25vbC9zaGFyZWQvYnNw /hi/live_gallery/img/main/0fLX9zK5yQ7GS.jpg", dateStamp: "02/10/2009 13:31:15", alt: " ", thumbnail: { src: "/s/event-4292536/aHR0cDovL25ld3NpbWcuYmJjLmNvLnVrL25vbC9zaGFyZWQvYnNw /hi/live_gallery/img/main/thumb_0fLX9zK5yQ7GS.jpg", elapsedTime: "01h 29m ago", elapsedMin: "29", elapsedHour: "1", elapsedDay: "0", alt: " "}, caption: "Family members clean up rubbles in their house destroyed by an earthquake in Pariaman, a coastal town about 40 miles (60 kilometers) northwest of Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude earthquake started at sea and quickly rippled through Sumatra, the westernmost island in the Indonesian archipelago." }, { src: "/s/event-4292536/aHR0cDovL25ld3NpbWcuYmJjLmNvLnVrL25vbC9zaGFyZWQvYnNw /hi/live_gallery/img/main/0dlL7ufbmB51W.jpg", dateStamp: "02/10/2009 13:28:35", alt: " ", thumbnail: { src: "/s/event-4292536/aHR0cDovL25ld3NpbWcuYmJjLmNvLnVrL25vbC9zaGFyZWQvYnNw /hi/live_gallery/img/main/thumb_0dlL7ufbmB51W.jpg", elapsedTime: "01h 31m ago", elapsedMin: "31", elapsedHour: "1", elapsedDay: "0", alt: " "}, caption: "An Indonesian woman dries her mattresses outside her home damaged by an earthquake in Pariaman, a coastal town about 40 miles (60 kilometers) northwest of Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. Medical teams, search dogs, backhoes and emergency supplies were flown into the devastated western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island Friday to bolster frantic rescue attempts for thousands buried by a powerful earthquake." }, { src: "/s/event-4292536/aHR0cDovL25ld3NpbWcuYmJjLmNvLnVrL25vbC9zaGFyZWQvYnNw /hi/live_gallery/img/main/049HgWF8oNgs7.jpg", dateStamp: "02/10/2009 13:28:19", alt: " ", thumbnail: { src: "/s/event-4292536/aHR0cDovL25ld3NpbWcuYmJjLmNvLnVrL25vbC9zaGFyZWQvYnNw /hi/live_gallery/img/main/thumb_049HgWF8oNgs7.jpg", elapsedTime: "01h 32m ago", elapsedMin: "32", elapsedHour: "1", elapsedDay: "0", alt: " "}, caption: "Women...