 On August 19, the Philippine government has asked the governments of Indonesia, Japan and the United States to help assist with the cleanup.President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo created Task Force Guimaras on August 22 in order to oversee both the cleanup of the oil spill and the retrieval of the 1.5 million liters of fuel oil still remaining inside the tanker.The government also ordered the creation of the Special Board of Marine Inquiry to determine who and what caused the spill.