Most Recently, The DVI Team Received 56 DNA Samples From The Passenger Family Of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182

Press conference on the progress of handling the identification of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 victims at the National Police Hospital (Wardhany Tsa Tsia / VOI)

JAKARTA - The National Police's DVI team has received 56 DNA samples from the families of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 passengers who crashed into the waters of the Thousand Islands.

"As of 17.00 WIB, the DVI Team has received 56 DNA," said Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono in a press conference at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, Monday, January 11.

In addition, there is also the addition of a body bag containing body parts or body parts that are thought to have come from the passengers of the unlucky plane.

"We have received (in total, red) 17 body bags," he said.

The Sriwijaya Air SJY-182 plane with the Jakarta-Pontianak route lost contact in the Thousand Islands shortly after taking off from Soekarno Hatta Airport on Saturday, January 9, 2020. News of the plane's lost contact was followed by certainty that the plane crashed near Male Island. .

In total, the plane carried 62 people, including 12 crew members and 50 passengers. The 50 passengers consisted of 40 adult passengers, seven children and three babies.

Most recently, the Police DVI Team has succeeded in identifying a passenger on behalf of Okky Bisma who is a crew or flight attendant of Sriwijaya SJ-182 aircraft. This identification was successfully carried out through fingerprints found on Okky's right hand which matched his identity card (KTP).