National Police Hospital Receives 308 Body Bags From The Location Of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Crash

JAKARTA - The Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Team at Kramat Jati Police Hospital, East Jakarta, until today at 09.00 WIB in total has received 308 body bags of victims of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182.

"Today's update, we received 308 bags from phase 1 in Tanjung Priok," said the Commander of the DVI Pusdokkes Polri, Kombes Hery Wijatmoko, during a press conference held at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, East Jakarta, Monday, January 18.

Of these, continued Hery, so far his party has managed to identify 29 passengers of the unlucky plane, 15 of which have been sent back to their families.

As for DNA samples, currently the DVI Team has collected 438 DNA samples from passenger families and this number is complete for 62 passengers registered in the manifest of the plane that crashed in the waters of the Thousand Islands last week.

"For properties we received 168 bags," he said.

Furthermore, Hery said, his party continued to identify the findings of body bags that were sent to the Police Hospital. This activity is still ongoing today.

"This morning, we set up an examination on four tables at postmortem to identify the two bags that were last found yesterday," he explained.

It is known that on Sunday, January 17, there were five passengers. They are Fau Nuntius Zai, male 11 months; Yuni Dwi Saputri, 34 years old woman; Iskandar, male 52 years; Okke Durotul Zannah, 24 years old woman; and a person who, based on the request of the family, has not been made public.

The five were identified using the DNA matching method based on the samples submitted by the family to the DVI Team.

Previously reported, 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 confirmed if the plane crashed around Male Island and Lancang Island, 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.