Foreign Ministry to send to five million crowns in aid to Indonesia

The Foreign Ministry has said that it will send humanitarian aid worth up to five million crowns to Indonesia, hit by a massive earthquake on Saturday. Ministry spokesman Vit Kolar said that the decision was taken by Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda, adding that the exact sum and form of aid has yet to be chosen. The earthquake that hit areas on the island of Java on Saturday ranked 6.2 degrees on the Richter scale. More than 4,000 people were killed in the disaster, some 20,000 thousand injured, and hundreds of thousands displaced.

Author: Jan Velinger