What You Need To Know From The SJ-182 Sriwijaya Air Victim Identification Process

JAKARTA - The bags containing the body parts of the victims of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane that crashed in the Thousand Islands are already at the Police Hospital, Kramat Jati, East Jakarta. It is the DVI team's turn to carry out the identification armed with antemortem and post mortem data.

The General Chair of the Forensic Doctors Association, Ade Firmansyah Sugiharto, explained that the process of identifying victims included those related to airplane accidents.

"We reflect on the previous one from the crash of Lion Air (in Karawang waters), we see that it depends on the height and how the process fell. Indeed, we will usually find the bodies in the vicinity and will culminate in the third day and the fifth day where the bodies begin to float in the water. Furthermore, this condition is certain that with the presence of decay, the difficulty of identification will be greater, ”said doctor Ade Firmansyah as quoted from an interview with Kompas TV, Sunday, January 10 evening.

The identification of victims through this antemortem requires primary and secondary data. This primary data consists of DNA, teeth, and fingerprints.

"DNA is the most important because it is in human cells so that any part of the body found by the team in phase one, of course in the post mortem phase will be able to take the sample," he continued.

This identification process has different levels of difficulty. Because it needs supporting data to strengthen the process of identifying the body or body parts of the body.

"We get all the data very comprehensively from the first phase of the discovery of the body. When being evacuated from the sea, any items or property attached to the body must be included in one bag. Because it becomes valuable information. for example, the body is tied to a chair number that is very fast (identification), ”said doctor Ade Firmansyah.

After the antemortem data has been collected, the identification team will match it with post mortem data, namely data after the victim has died.

"Later it will be reconciled with antemortem data, for example body features, inherent properties, fingerprints, all secondary primary data. Information from phase one, two and phase three we reconcile, we can identify bodies. Indeed, the process must be like that because we have to be careful and careful so that there are no mistakes, "he said.

A total of 306 personnel in the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, Jakarta, were deployed to identify victims of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 crash.

"At the National Police Hospital, a DVI team of 306 personnel has worked, this consists of related agencies," said Head of the Public Information Bureau (Karo Penmas) of the National Police's Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, quoted by Antara, Sunday, January 10.

Apart from the National Police, the personnel of the DVI team who will begin to identify the bodies of the victims on Monday, January 11, are from the TNI, the Ministry of Health and the Indonesian Forensic Doctors Association.

Rusdi Hartono said that the DVI team will identify the seven body bags that have been received by the National Police Hospital, supported by "antemortem" data that has been received.

"All work together at the National Police Hospital to identify the bodies of the victims of the plane crash," said Rusdi Hartono.

The National Police appealed to the families of the victims to immediately provide data to the DVI team, in the form of certificates, family cards and other documents to assist identification.

"Any information is very helpful for the DVI team to identify the bodies who were victims of the accident," said Rusdi Hartono.

The bags of bodies were reportedly brought together at 23.15 WIB, Sunday, January 10. These bags were handed over from the Basarnas team at the main post to search for Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 at JICT2, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.

Previously, the Deputy Head of the National Police Hospital, Kombes Hariyanto, said that at 21.00 WIB, Sunday, January 10, a total of 8 body bags were received containing 10 body parts of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane crash in the Thousand Islands.

The National Police's DVI team also collected anti-mortem data on victims of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 passengers provided by their families. Antemortem data were collected from family reports received at the Police Hospital, Jakarta; Pontianak, West Kalimantan; and Surabaya, East Java.

"So in total there are 54 data, from 54 we take 39 DNA," said Kombes Hariyanto.