Three Days At Sea, People Asked To Encourage The SJ-182 Sriwijaya Air Search Team

Sriwijaya AIr SJ 182 Evacuation (Photo: Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - Basarnas Operations Director, Brigadier General TNI (Mar) Rasman, asked the public to encourage the joint SAR team who were still searching for victims, materials, and the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 black box for the past three days.

Rasman said encouraging some Basarnas, TNI, Polri and volunteers who had not returned home for three days could ease their burden. This is because operating activities are not an easy job.

"Let's pray, our colleagues who have been in the field for 3 days. This is certainly not an easy job or activity because it requires skills and physicality. They have been three days, of course they need encouragement from us," said Rasman at the JICT II Integrated Command Post. , North Jakarta, Tuesday, January 12.

One of the vessels that has not returned to JICT II Jetty and is still in the last known position (LKP) or the central point of the fall of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 is KRI Rigel.

Separately, the Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Navy, Admiral TNI Yudo Margono, said that KRI Rigel was still searching for aircraft black boxes. To support the rest facilities for the SAR team there, his party has brought in KRI Semarang since Monday, January 11 yesterday.

Yudo said, the KRI Semarang had a rest area to restore the SAR team's personnel before returning to dives to search for victims, debris, to the plane's black box.

"We bring the KRI Semarang which has a portable jumper that can be used by the headquarters. So, they can rest in a location that is closer (from LKP)," said Yudo.

As of this morning, as many as 74 bags containing body parts of victims or body parts have been found, 16 bags containing small plane fragments, and 24 large aircraft that have been brought to the JICT II Integrated Command Post.

When there is a discovery of plane debris, Basarnas will hand it over to the National Transportation Safety Committee. Meanwhile, pieces of the victim's body or property were handed over to the Police's Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team for identification.