SOLO, Indonesia, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The first batch
of China's 10 million yuan (1.25 million U.S. dollar) worth of relief materials
for Indonesia's quake victims arrived in Indonesia's Solo airport Saturday
afternoon.
The goods include medicine, medical equipment, tents, sheets and power generators. The second batch will arrive here
on Sunday.
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's
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 2 million U.S. dollars of aid in cash to Indonesia and
sent a 40-member relief team composed of seismological experts andmedical
workers to the country's hardest-hit Bantul district. Enditem