In a statement, the ministry said the aid has been prepared and is in the warehouses of Asean’s Disaster Emergency Logistics System in Subang, Malaysia; and Chainat, Thailand.

“The next aid will be sent on May 22 or May 23 by military aircraft from Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand,” said the ministry.

Transportation of aid using Asean member military aircrafts is done through the Asean Military Ready Group on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief.

Asean foreign ministers had conveyed their intention to provide humanitarian aid to Myanmar based on the “One Asean One Response” principle.

Executive director for the Asean Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre), representatives from Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand in the Asean Emergency Response and Assessment Team (Asean-Erat) and the Asean Secretariat have arrived in Myanmar to support emergency response efforts.

They are also collecting information in the field and facilitating rapid needs assessment, said the ministry.

More than 400 people reportedly died in Myanmar’s Rakhine state last Wednesday as a result of Cyclone Mocha, which hit the coastal area between Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district and the town of Kyaukpyu in Myanmar.