306 DVI Team Personnel Deployed Identification Of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Airplane Victims Starting Today

Body bags related to victims of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane at the National Police Hospital, Kramat Jati, Jakarta (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - As many as 306 personnel in the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, Jakarta, were deployed to identify victims of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 crash.

"At the National Police Hospital, a DVI team of 306 personnel has worked, this consists of related agencies," said Head of the Public Information Bureau (Karo Penmas) of the National Police's Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, quoted by Antara, Sunday, January 10.

Apart from the National Police, the personnel of the DVI team who will begin to identify the bodies of the victims on Monday, January 11, are from the TNI, the Ministry of Health and the Indonesian Forensic Doctors Association.

Rusdi Hartono said that the DVI team will identify the seven body bags that have been received by the National Police Hospital, supported by "ante mortem" data that has been received.

"All work together at the National Police Hospital to identify the bodies of the victims of the plane crash," said Rusdi Hartono.

The National Police appealed to the families of the victims to immediately provide data to the DVI team, in the form of certificates, family cards and other documents to assist identification.

"Any information is very helpful for the DVI team to identify the bodies who were victims of the accident," said Rusdi Hartono.

The body bag at the Police Hospital

Kramat Jati Police Hospital, East Jakarta has received 8 body bags containing 10 suspected body parts of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 victim. The National Police's DVI team will carry out identification based on antemortem and post mortem data.

"So we received 8 bags containing 10 body parts, we will check them in the post mortem," said Deputy Head of the Police Hospital, Kombes Hariyanto, quoted in an interview via Metro TV broadcast, Sunday, January 10.

This data was confirmed by Kombes Hariyanto, the latest data was at 21.00 WIB, Sunday, January 10. The National Police's DVI team also collected anti-mortem data on victims of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 passengers provided by their families. Antemortem data were collected from family reports received at the Police Hospital, Jakarta; Pontianak; and Surabaya, East Java.

"So in total there are 54 data, from 54 we take 39 DNA," said Kombes Hariyanto.

The latest from the search for victims and debris as well as the black box of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft, the turbine allegedly belonging to the Jakarta-Pontianak route has been handed over to the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT).

This turbine was originally lifted from the waters of the Thousand Islands and evacuated to KRI Rigel 933. Currently, the turbine is suspected of being part of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane on the Jakarta-Pontianak route, which is already at JICT2 pier, the main command post for the search for the crash of the Sriwijaya Air plane.

You can see that the turbine is lifted by a crane to the location which is marked with a dividing line where all findings related to Sriwijaya Air-182 are placed. The Indonesian Navy immediately submitted the findings to Basarnas at the location to be followed up by the NTSC's research at around 22.27 WIB.

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

Based on manifest data, the aircraft produced in 1994 carried 62 people consisting of 50 passengers and 12 crew members. Of these, 40 adults, seven children, three babies. Meanwhile, the 12 crew consists of six active crews and six extra crews.

Previously, Kabasarnas Bagus Puruhito confirmed that the search for victims and black box operations of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 lasted 24 hours. For tomorrow, the search will expand to the coast.