The Singapore government will offer more humanitarian relief assistance to earthquake-hit Indonesia, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Wednesday.

The city state will send an additional eight-member Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) medical team and an 11-member Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF) medical team to the affected areas.

Apart from contributing 50,000 U.S. dollars to the Singapore Red Cross, the government will provide Indonesia with further emergency supplies worth 200,000 U.S. dollars including medical supplies, blankets and tents.

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has "conveyed the details of the enhanced relief package in a letter to (Indonesian) President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono earlier today," the statement said.

A powerful earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's Yogyakarta and several parts of Central Java Province on Saturday morning, leaving over 5,000 people dead, more than 10, 000 injured and at least 200,000 homeless.

On Sunday, the Singapore government sent a 35-member SAF medical team, a 43-member SCDF disaster assistance and rescue team, as well as equipment and humanitarian aid worth 50,000 U.S. dollars including tents, sleeping bags, blankets and medical supplies, to Yogyakarta.

The Singapore Red Cross, non-governmental organization Mercy Relief and several hospitals in the city state also dispatched in the past few days dozens of medical staff and volunteers, together with medical supplies, to help victims in Indonesia.

Source: Xinhua