Indonesia on Monday opened up to international help with evacuation and aid distribution after a series of earthquakes and a tsunami hit the island region of Sulawesi, the country’s disaster agency (BPNB) said, news wires reported on Monday. At least 1,200 people died after the earthquakes and tsunami, according to local media citing government officials. Most of the dead were found in nearby Palu, a city of nearly 300,000. A 21-year-old Indonesian air traffic controller, Anthonius Gunawan Agung, is credited with sacrificing himself to help a passenger jet escape the country’s catastrophic earthquake that has killed hundreds of people. The pilot paid tribute to Agung as his “guardian angel” and said he had less than 30 seconds to spare escaping the island.