In Yogyakarta in quake hit Indonesia on Sunday China delivered over 10 million yuan (US$1.25 million) worth of relief materials.   

 

Tan Weiwen, minister counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia and Paku Alam IX, vice governor of D. I. Yogyakarta, attended the presentation ceremony as representatives of their respective central governments. 

 

The goods, weighing about 100 tons, include medicine, medical equipment, tents, mattresses, sheets and power generators. 

 

The vice governor thanked the Chinese government and people for the aid saying it was timely and practical for Indonesia's quake relief work. 

 

An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale struck Yogyakarta and surrounding areas on May 27 killing over 6,000 people, injuring thousands of others and leaving nearly 200,000 homeless. 

 

Before sending the relief materials the Chinese government had offered US$2 million of aid in cash to Indonesia and sent a 40-member relief team composed of seismological experts and medical workers to the country's hardest-hit Bantul district.

 

(Xinhua News Agency June 5, 2006)