<span style="color: #222222;">Indonesia has appealed for international help to provide life saving assistance as it struggles to deal with the sheer scale of the  recent quake and tsunami that  devastated swathes of Sulawesi killing over 800 people.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Officials fear the toll will rise steeply in the coming days as some remote areas have yet to be contacted. Rescuers are  struggling with a shortage of heavy equipment to reach desperate victims calling out from the ruins of collapsed buildings.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In response, President Joko Widodo opened the door to the dozens of international aid agencies and NGOs lined up to provide live-saving assistance</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">At Poboya — in the hills above the devastated seaside city of Palu — volunteers dug a 100 metre-long grave to bury the dead.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">   </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile government officials said some 1,200 inmates fled at least three prisons in the region</span><br />