Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Passenger Family Does Not Need To Go To Disdukcapil To Handle Death Certificates

Fragments of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft collected at the main JICT2 command post in Tanjung Priok Jakarta (Diah Ayu / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Director General of Dukcapil of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Zudan Arif, emphasized that the families of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 passengers do not need to go to the Population and Civil Registry Service (Disdukcapil) to obtain population data or death certificates.

"For the families of the victims, there is no need to take care of the death certificate at the Dukcapil Office. Let us work from the family, we will just submit the documents at home," Zudan said in a press conference held at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, East Jakarta, Friday, January 15.

He said the family would not be complicated in processing death certificates because the data needed was a death certificate from the Police Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Team.

"So our DVI Team's certificate (received, red), the death certificate was issued immediately," he said.

Furthermore, he explained that currently the Director General of Dukcapil has issued 12 death certificates for the identified passengers. Of the total, two of them have been submitted while the rest are still waiting for an agreement from the family.

"The submission of the two is done, the rest is waiting for the family agreement. We have prepared death certificates and other documents such as electronic ID cards and family cards," said Zudan.

It is known that the number of passengers currently identified by the DVI team has reached 12 passengers, two of which are crew members, namely a steward on behalf of Okky Bisma and a stewardess on behalf of Mia Tresetyani.

In addition, of these dozens of passengers, two of them have been handed over to the family for funerals, namely Okky Bisma and Asy Habul Yamin.

Previously, 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 on Saturday, January 9, 2020.

Furthermore, the authorities provide certainty if the plane crashed around Male Island and Lancang Island, Thousand Islands.

The total aircraft carried 62 people including 12 crew members and 50 passengers consisting of 40 adult passengers, seven children and three babies.

Fragments of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft collected at the main JICT2 command post in Tanjung Priok Jakarta (Diah Ayu / VOI)