Give More Attention To The Fall Of The Sriwijaya SJ-182 Airplane, Jokowi Calls The Minister Of Transportation Budi Karya Five Times A Day

Minister of Transportation (Menhub) Budi Karya Sumadi (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - Minister of Transportation (Menhub) Budi Karya Sumadi said President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) paid more attention to the downing of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane around the Thousand Islands on Saturday, January 9.

This was conveyed by Budi Karya after reporting the latest conditions regarding the search for the plane and the passengers who were koban.

"We also convey that Mr. President is concerned with the process of resolving this disaster. The president has phoned me and discussed more than five times a day. I also report (conditions, red) to the President twice a day," Budi said in a press conference broadcast on his YouTube account. Presidential Secretariat, Tuesday, January 12.

Budi said that President Jokowi was deeply saddened by the crash of this plane. He said Jokowi even ordered relevant stakeholders to coordinate well to provide services to passenger families and quickly resolve their rights.

So to carry out this order, Budi immediately visited the Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) to ensure that all relevant parties could speed up the process of searching for passengers and airframes.

"God willing, we will carry out the order and this afternoon I will be asked to Priuk to make sure what has been ordered goes well," he said.

Previously reported, the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane on the Jakarta-Pontianak route had lost contact 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 consisting of 40 adult passengers, seven children and three babies.

Of the dozens of body bags that entered the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, the Police DVI Team has succeeded in identifying a passenger on behalf of Okky Bisma who is a crew or flight attendant of the Sriwijaya SJ-182 aircraft.

This identification was successfully carried out through fingerprints found on Okky's right hand which matched his identity card (KTP).