Police DVI Team: There Is No Target Time For Completing The Identification Of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Passengers

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

JAKARTA - Head of the National Police's Center for Health and Health DVI, Kombes Ahmad Fauzi, said that his party did not have a target time to complete the identification of passengers on the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane that crashed in the waters of the Thousand Islands.

"There is no (target time, red). DVI is what matters is accuracy, not speed," Fauzi told reporters at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, East Jakarta, Monday, January 11.

Accuracy, he said, is important. This is because the DVI team did not want the results of their identification to be wrong later.

Fauzi asked the public and victims' families not to ask the Police DVI Team to work quickly. "Do not get the wrong identification," he said.

"We ask for awareness from the families of the victims and other people not to be rushed and misidentified," added Fauzi.

As 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, Cengkareng on Saturday, January 9. The plane is confirmed to have crashed between Male Island and Lancang Island, Thousand Islands.

The SJ-182 aircraft carried 62 passengers including the crew. The 50 passengers consisted of 40 adult passengers, seven children and three babies.

Furthermore, the National Police is currently opening antiemortem posts in two different places, namely in Pontianak and at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital.

The post at the Police Hospital operates 24 hours. So, the families of passengers who want to provide specific data or information related to the passengers of the unlucky plane can come to the post.