Jakarta - The Indonesian Air Force has made  two C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft available to transport Indonesian relief aid to China for victims of the recent earthquake in that country, a spokesman said.

"We have four Hercules cargo planes to support humanitarian operations in and outside the country. To carry humanitarian assistance to China, we are preparing two of the aircraft," Air Commodore Chaeruddin Ray, head  of the Indonesian Air Force's information service, told Antara here Monday.

Separately, the head of the health ministry's crisis management center,  Rustam S. Pakaya, said Indonesia is to send a 62-member medical and military team to help quake victims in Shincuan province, China.

The Indonesian team would consist of health ministry, National Defense Forces (TNI) and police officers.

Among the health ministry officers would be doctors from Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital in Jakarta, RS Sadikin Hospital in Bandung  and Dr Soetomo Hospital in Surabaya.

The medical team would include  20 specialists, eight general practitioners,  12 nurses, one  rontgen operator and  13 field hospital officers.

Logistical aid would comprise five tons of medicines, four tons of food to supplement mother's milk and one ton of instant food.

The medical team members were currently preparing their travel documents while their equipment and logistics were to be despatched on Wednesday, Pakaysa said.

The Indonesian medical team would work in the quake-affected  regions in China for one month, he said adding Indonesia's assistance was   to reciprocate the helping hand China extended when Indonesia was hit by a devastating tsunami and earthquake in the recent past.

The 7.9 earthquake which hit China's Shicuan province two weeks  killed, injured and otherwise harmed tens of thousands of people. .

- Source : Antara News Agency, 20 May 2008