They Continue To Fight In The SJ-182 Sriwijaya Air Tragedy Humanitarian Mission

JAKARTA - The government has promised to continue the search for victims related to the downing of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane. The Indonesian Navy soldiers, who participated in the joint SAR operation, continued the search including the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Jakarta-Pontianak route.

On the 5th day of the search, the joint team from the Jalamangkara Detachment (Denjaka) of the Indonesian Navy and the Amphibious Reconnaissance (Taifib) of the Indonesian Navy was still struggling in the humanitarian mission of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane tragedy in the Seribu Islands waters.

The day before, Tuesday, January 12, a joint team of Indonesian Navy divers found part of a black box or balck box in the form of a Flight Data Recorder (FDR) belonging to Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 which fell on Saturday, January 9. The location is between the waters of Male Island and Sacang Island.

During the search, a joint team consisting of 50 Denkaja personnel and 14 Taifib personnel continued to search for casualties using all available equipment and search for the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) or cockpit voice recorder on one part of the Sriwijaya Air aircraft black box.

Although the weather at that time was not friendly with wave heights of two meters to three meters. Meanwhile, the visibility or visibility is three to five meters.

The search was carried out by a joint team using a tool owned by the Marine Corps, namely an Underwater Metal Detector which functions to detect and identify metals that are in or below the surface of the ground in the depths of the sea.

Head of Basarnas Marshal Madya Bagus Puruhito said that the search for the joint SAR team today experienced bad weather problems. So that they did not find as many victims and pieces of Sriwijaya Air SJ 182 as yesterday.

In the data recorded at 19:40 WIB, there were 2 additional body bags containing parts of the victim's body. Then, the smaller aircraft debris increased by five, and the large aircraft debris increased by two.

Thus, the total findings of the SAR team until the fifth day were 141 body bags containing body parts, 31 small bags containing aircraft debris, and 28 large pieces of the plane.

"Although I think the weather is not supportive or not very supportive, on the sidelines of the weather which is sometimes good and not, we are still enthusiastic about carrying out search operations or SAR operations," said Bagus at the JICT II Integrated Command Post, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, Wednesday, January 13th.

Head of Topol Pusinafis Bareskrim Polri Kombes Sriyanto said two Sriwijaya Air passengers with flight number SJ-182 that were identified, namely Indah Halimah Putri and Agus Minarni, were identified through their fingerprints.

Indah Halimah Putri, who was registered on number 24 of the passenger manifest, said Sriyanto, was identified through a fingerprint on the thumb of her right hand.

"First the label number 0027 from the fingerprint of the left thumb, from the victim's body we found, we looked for it from the fingerprint, we compared it with the e-KTP fingerprint, it turns out that the left thumb is identical, 12 points identical. This in our opinion is indisputable, "Sriyanto said in a press conference at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, East Jakarta, Wednesday, January 13.

As for Agus Minarni, he said that he was identified after the DVI team matched the fingerprints on the thumb of his right hand with the e-KTP data.

"We get fingerprints from the victim from the right thumb. After we compare it with the fingerprints on the e-KTP, the right thumb is identical to the 12 points of the equation in the name of Agus Minarni, manifest number 52," he said.

Indah and Agus were the passengers who were identified by the DVI Team today.

It is known that since Monday, January 11, four passengers have been identified, two of whom are 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.