Police Hospital Again Receives One Pocket Of Body Of Glodok Fire Victim

One bag of the body of the Glodok Plaza fire victim, Tamansari, West Jakarta, arrived at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, Saturday (18/1/2025) at 17.08 WIB. BETWEEN

JAKARTA - Bhayangkara Tk I Hospital, Police Health Center (Polri Hospital) Kramat Jati, East Jakarta on Saturday afternoon received another body bag that fell victim to the Glodok Plaza fire, Tamansari, West Jakarta, on Wednesday (15/1) night.

One body bag was taken in an ambulance and arrived at the Police Hospital at around 17.08 WIB and immediately taken to the Forensic Installation Building of the Police Hospital for identification purposes as an effort to reveal the identity of the victim.

The arrival of this body bag increased the number of body bags received by the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, East Jakarta, to as many as eight body bags.

The National Police Hospital has formed a Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team to conduct examinations and identification of the bodies of fire victims.

During the examination of the body, the National Police Hospital collaborated with the Indonesia Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (Inafis) and the Forensic Laboratory Center (Puslabfor).

The Kramat Jati Police Hospital, East Jakarta, has identified the bodies of victims of the Glodok Plaza building fire, Tamansari, West Jakarta, Wednesday (15/1) night through DNA examination.

"It is very likely that we will use DNA tests to identify the bodies of the victims of the fire. It has been carried out since this morning," said Head of the Police Hospital Brigadier General Prima Heru Yulihartono when met at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, East Jakarta, Friday (17/1).

Prima said that DNA testing could be more helpful in identifying bodies because the condition of the bodies had been burned.

"The condition of the victim's body was due to severe burning. So it is necessary to deepen the process for identification," said Prima.