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nother patient infected with the H1N1 flu died on Sunday after being treated for several days at the Persahabatan Hospital in Jakarta.

"She died due to severe complications. She was being treated for the H1N1 virus for at least one week," a close relative of the victim said.

"However, she also suffered from pneumonia before she was infected with H1N1. The doctor said the complication then caused bacteria to enter her lungs, and in the end she died because of heart failure," he added.

The 24-year-old woman is the third Indonesian to die from the H1N1 flu and resulting complications, as the number of people infected with the virus continues to rapidly increase across the nation.

The first victim to succumb to the new virus was a 6-year-old girl who died about two weeks ago. The director general of disease control and environmental health at the Health Ministry, Tjandra Yoga Aditama, said the girl had also caught pneumonia.

The second Indonesian victim was a 28-year-old woman who died in Saudi Arabia last Thursday.

Meanwhile, the Health Ministry announced in a press release that as of Sunday the H1N1 virus had infected 561 individuals across the archipelago since June 24. The ministry's research and development department reported that on Saturday alone, there were 41 new confirmed cases of H1N1 infection.

This included 17 males. The ministry reported that 37 of these people did not have any record indicating they had travelled abroad recently,, but three of the infected patients had recently returned from the United States.

The ministry also reported that five of the newly infected patients were foreigners.

The continuously rising rate of H1N1 flu infection has prompted Muhammadiyah chairman Din Syamsuddin to speak out against the government for not taking the H1N1 virus seriously and failing to prevent it from spreading.

"It seems the government has lost its *sense of crisis' with regards to the swine flu plague," he said, as quoted by Antara in Surabaya, East Java, on Saturday.

"For example, there are body-thermal detectors installed at the Sukarno Hatta International Airport, but their use has not been optimized. The airport officers told me that they were only using those detectors to check people with symptoms of a high fever," he added.

Din's claims the government was not taking the threat of the virus seriously ware echoed by the chairman of the Indonesian Health Consumer Empowerment Foundation, Marius Widjajarta.