INDONESIAN TSUNAMI TOLL REACHES 80,000

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CNN - 12/30/04) -- The death toll from Sunday's tsunamis has jumped sharply to over 116,000 after Indonesia reported nearly 80,000 people were killed in that country alone.

Emergency workers reported that in some parts of Aceh, as many as one in every four citizens was dead.

Aceh province, nearly inaccessible in the best of times because of its remoteness and the presence for years of an armed insurgency, was even more cut off after Sunday's disaster.

Dino Patti Djalal, spokesman for Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said the Indonesian military's 30,000-strong force in the province was devastated.

"The military and the police were hard hit. Hundreds were killed," he said. "One military helicopter survived."

Djalal said aid had begun arriving in the devastated province, but CNN's Mike Chinoy said the capital showed little signs of it.