About 70 New Zealand defence personnel will fly to Indonesia next week to assist the tsunami- relief operation.
A light medical team of 31 and about 40 Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) people are being sent to replace the New Zealand teams that have been working in Banda Aceh and Jakarta since the end of December.
Joint Forces New Zealand Public Affairs spokesman Lieutenant Commander Andrew Lincoln said in a statement Friday that the second rotation would be deployed for 60 days.
The contingent is expected to fly out of RNZAF Base Ohakea on Wednesday. The first contingent is due back in New Zealand on Feb. 8.
A light medical team flew to the tsunami-ravaged region on Dec. 30 and has been working alongside the Australian Defence Force at Banda Aceh Public Hospital.
Air force personnel have been flying a Hercules C-130, carrying aid from Jakarta to Banda Aceh and taking refugees, many of them injured, back to Jakarta on the return flight.
The C-130 has made 15 return flights from Jakarta to Banda Aceh, transported more than 1000 relief workers and refugees and moved 118,000kg of freight.
Currently, there are 75 New Zealand Defence Force personnel working in Indonesia-- at Banda Aceh, Jakarta, and Medan, where there is a small team.