Body Bags Only Contain Meat And Bones, Police Difficult To Identify Pertamina Plumpang Fire Victims

Areas affected by the Pertamina Plumpang Depot fire/ Photo: Jehan/VOI

JAKARTA - The Head of the Bureau (Karo) of the National Police Medical and Health Center (Pusdokkes), Brigadier General Pol Dr. Prima Heru, revealed that one body bag containing a "body part" or body parts of the victims of the Pertamina Plumpang Depot fire, Koja, North Jakarta, was difficult to identify.

"The process of examining body parts takes longer because the samples that come into us can only be examined by bones," said Heru during a press conference at the Police Hospital, Kramat Jati, East Jakarta, Wednesday, March 8.

According to him, the body part contains pieces of meat and bones of fire victims.

"We don't know what shape it is on the feet or what, but it's meat," he said.

Therefore, his party identified the pieces of the body from bone DNA because the meat had caught fire.

The Kramat Jati Police Hospital has received 15 body bags and a bag containing pieces of the fire victims' bodies.

To date, 12 bodies of fire victims have been identified, namely Sumiati or Neneng (71), Raffasya Zayid Athallah (4), Marijuana Rhea Aprilita (12), Suheri (32) and Hadi (32).

Furthermore Fahrul Hidayatuloh (28), Muhamad Bukhor (41), Iriyana (61), Iqbal (9), Hanifah (50), Hardito (20) and Dayu Nurmawati (39).

Thus, there are still three bodies that have not been identified by the Police Disaster Victim and Identification (DVI) team.