DVI Polri Has Difficulty Identification Of SJ-182 Sriwijaya Air Victims, This Is The Cause!

Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya, Kombes Yusri Yunus (VOI / Diah Ayu Wardani)

JAKARTA - Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya, Yusri Yunus, said that the National Police's Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team had problems identifying victims of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft with body fragments found by the SAR team.

Yusri said, the family who attended the ante mortem post had to have blood relations with the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 passenger so that DNA identification was easy.

"The comparison is the closest person, the one who has to be straight or in blood to check his DNA. For example, father, mother, or child. So, husband and wife of passengers cannot," said Yusri at the JICT II Command Post, North Jakarta, Sunday, January 10th.

Yusri said that so far only 12 victims' families have come. However, most families who come are not related by blood to the Sriwijaya SJ-182 passengers.

"Of the twelve who have come since last night are his uncles, nephews, neighbors. That cannot be done. Because, the comparison is so that we can find out whose body part is this, whose body part is this," he said.

Previously, the Sriwijaya Air plane number PK-CLC SJ-182 for the Jakarta-Pontianak route lost contact on Saturday, January 9, at 14:40 WIB and crashed in the waters of the Thousand Islands between Lancang Island and Laki Island.

The Boeing 737-500 aircraft lost contact at a position 11 nautical miles north of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang after passing an altitude of 11,000 feet and at the time of increasing its altitude at 13,000 feet.

The plane took off from Soekarno Hatta Airport at 14.36 WIB. The schedule is delayed from the previous flight schedule at 13.35 WIB. Departure delays due to weather factors.