The cemetery on the eastern side of Palu has become a focal point for the city’s grief as it slowly tries to recover from the magnitude-7.5 quake and the devastating tsunami that it set off.

[Surveying the damage: Scenes from the Indonesian tsunami]

Officials said Tuesday that at least 1,234 people had died, including 120 foreigners. Others, still uncounted, lie in the rubble of ruined buildings or were swept away by the tsunami, which in some places reached a height of more than 20 feet. More than 1 million people live in the area affected by the dual disasters.

Nearly 6,400 personnel from an array of government agencies — including the military, the police, the national search-and-rescue agency and the Energy and Mineral Resources Department — were involved in efforts to find survivors, recover bodies and evacuate people from the stricken area, officials said.

More help and equipment were on the way, but the spokesman for Indonesia’s disaster management agency, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, told reporters that time was running out to find survivors alive.

“The team is racing against time because it’s already D+four,” he said, meaning four days since the day the quake struck.