Japan has asked Indonesia for additional oil and gas supplies after its electricity generating capacity was severely reduced by a series of blasts and fires at a quake-crippled nuclear plant.
Emergencies workers are scrambling to try and cool overheating reactors at Fukushima Daiichi plant in an effort to avert possible nuclear fallout.
The plant has been hit by a series of blasts and fires since last week's 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami. More than 16,000 people have been killed or listed as missing.
Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Makiko Kikuta traveled to Jakarta for talks with Indonesian Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa.
"I ask Hatta so that the Indonesian government could give additional energy or liquefied gas and oil to Japan," she was quoted by the Jakarta Post as saying.
Hatta said the Japanese did not specify the amount but confirmed that Indonesia would come forward.
MOSCOW, March 18 (RIA Novosti)
