• "Operation Lion Heart" Central Java Earthquake - Final Update (The Last of the SCDF Overseas Contingent Returns This Evening), Wednesday, 7 June 2006
  (SCDF.gov.sg)

The main SCDF Operation Lion Heart contingent comprising 41 personnel and 3 search dogs returned from Central Java on Monday, 5 June 2006. The remaining 11-member SCDF medical team and 2 info-communications specialists attached to the UN Reception Centre at Adisutjipto Airport will touch down this evening at the Paya Lebar Airbase. This marks an end to the SCDF Operation Lion Heart deployment for the Central Java earthquake that struck on Saturday, 27 May 2006. More...

• "Operation Lion Heart" Central Java Earthquake - Situation Update 9 (Rescue Contingent Returns to Singapore), Monday, 5 June 2006 
  (SCDF.gov.sg)

The SCDF “Operation Lion Heart” rescue contingent returns from Yogyakarta today as disaster management there turns to long-term recovery operations. The contingent was deployed to the Indonesian island of Java on 28 May 2006, a day after the island was hit by one of the worst earthquakes in recent years. Other international aid search and rescue (SAR) teams which have departed Yogyakarta includes members of the French and Japanese SAR teams. More...

• Foreign donors asked to focus on reconstruction
  (TheJakartaPost.com)

The government said Sunday future foreign assistance for survivors of the deadly earthquake in Yogyakarta and Central Java should focus on reconstruction efforts because medical help was sufficient. More...

• National media race to help quake victims
  (TheJakartaPost.com)

Days following the Yogyakarta earthquake, the media becomes one of the most powerful tool in rallying public support and distributing aid to those in need. More...

• Quake toll revised down as life slowly returns to normal
  (AFP)

Indonesian authorities have revised down the death toll from the Java earthquake to nearly 5,800, as survivors began to put their shattered lives back on track. More...

• Malaysia proposes the establishment of a regional based humanitarian relief centre
  (www.besonline.rtm.net.my)

Singapore - Deputy Prime Minister, Dato' Seri Najib has proposed the establishment of a regional based humanitarian relief centre in which member states will commit a set of forces in the event a disaster strikes. More...

• Eight more docs to head for Indonesia
  (The Star Online)

KUALA LUMPUR: Peace Malaysia is despatching eight more doctors to help tend to injured victims of the earthquake in Yogyakarta. More...

• Malaysia calls for regional humanitarian relief centre
  (The Star Online)

SINGAPORE: Malaysia has called for the setting up of a regional-based humanitarian relief co-ordinating centre to be mobilised in the event of a disaster. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who made the proposal during a high-level security forum here, said that under the proposal, each member country would have to commit a set of forces, made up of civilian and military personnel. More...

• Java quake aid bottlenecks overcome soon - U.N.
  (The Star Online)

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Bottlenecks in getting aid to tens of thousands left homeless by an earthquake in Java should be overcome soon but the hard-hit region will need a six-month relief operation, U.N. officials said on Friday. More...

• Indonesian government revises quake death toll downward
  (TheJakartaPost.com)

BANTUL, Yogyakarta (AP): Indonesia's government on Monday revised the death toll from the country's May 27 earthquake downward to 5,782, saying some victims had been counted twice and others had been found alive. More...