Special report: Earthquake in Indonesia

    YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia, May 29 (Xinhua) -- As emergency aid both from the international community and within the country is being mobilized, supplies are badly needed in the quake-stricken areas after a powerful earthquake struck the country on Saturday.

    Local officials said supplies were not being delivered fast enough to victims as groups of quake survivors filled up the main roads in the earthquake zone in Indonesia's Yogyakarta province Monday to beg for money to buy food, as aid didn't reach them quickly enough.

    They carried boxes to collect money from motorists in the southern town of Bantul, the worst hit by the devastating earthquake.

    "My family didn't eat anything the whole day," a man said repeatedly to the passing motorists.

    Many survivors of the quake spend the rainy and cold Sunday night outdoor, sleeping inside truck cabin, on plastic sheets and even on newspapers.

    Some survivors are trying to find building materials from the rubble to build temporary shelters and health centers as electricity and water supplies were still down in much of the region on Monday.

    The earthquake, measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale jolted Yogyakarta and parts of Central Java and East Java provinces Saturday morning, killing more than 5,000 people, injuring over 10,000 and rendering 200,000 people homeless.

    After the vehicle convoy of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono failed to reach the refugee camps in Bantul on time Monday due to the on-street donation, the president ordered the officials to speed up the aid delivery.

    "The aid distribution must be sped up," the president said during his visit to Imogiri district in Bantul.