Two Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Passengers Identified, On Behalf Of Agus Minarni And Indah Halimah Putri

JAKARTA - The Kramat Jati Police Hospital has again identified two passengers of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane that crashed in the waters of the Thousand Islands. Two names that were identified were Agus Minarni and Indah Halimah Putri.

Karo Penmas, Public Relations Division of the National Police, Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, said that the identification of the two people was based on checking the passengers' fingerprints with a database belonging to the Ministry of Home Affairs Disdukcapil.

"The team has reconciled antemortem and postmortem data and succeeded in identifying two victims through fingerprints," Rusdi said in a press conference at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, East Jakarta, Wednesday, January 13.

Rusdi ensures that the DVI team will continue to work optimally to identify the body parts of the victims that have been found. Then match with a number of antemortem data.

It is known that since Monday, January 11, there have been four passengers whose identities were identified and two of them were crews from Sriwijaya Air.

The two crews are Okky Bisma who is the flight attendent or steward of the unlucky plane and Fadly Satrianto who is an extra crew. While the other two were passengers, namely Khasanah and Asy Habul Yamin.

Previously, the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane on the Jakarta-Pontianak route had lost contact in the Thousand Islands shortly after taking off from Soekarno Hatta Airport on Saturday, January 9, 2020. Furthermore, the authorities provided certainty if the plane crashed in the vicinity of Laki and Pulau Lancang, Thousand Islands.

The total aircraft carried 62 people, including 12 crew members and 50 passengers consisting of 40 adult passengers, seven children and three babies.