29 Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Victims Identified By The Police DVI Team

Karonpenmas, National Police Public Relations Division Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono (Photo: Wardhany Tsa Tsa / VOI)

JAKARTA - The National Police's Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team has again succeeded in identifying five victims of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane on the Jakarta-Pontianak route. A total of 29 victims have been identified to date.

"The results of identification from the DVI Team, today succeeded in identifying 5 victims," said the Head of the Public Information Bureau (Karo Penmas) of the National Police Public Relations Division, Police Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, Jakarta, Sunday, January 17.

Previously, on Saturday, January 16, the DVI team had identified 24 victims. The victims were identified through DNA and fingerprints.

Rusdi conveyed that the five victims who were identified today include Fau Nuntius Zai, 11 months old; Yuni Dwi Saputri, 34 years old woman; Iskandar, male 52 years and Okke Durotul Zannah, female 24 years. The five newly identified victims were identified through DNA.

However, said Rusdi, out of the five identified, there was one victim whose identity was not revealed to the public. As requested from the family.

"The family does not want their identity to be conveyed to the public, of course this should be respected and we should respect," he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the National Police Health Center Laboratory, Kombes Pol Ratna, explained that the five victims who were identified were Fau Nuntiyus Zai, an 11-month-old baby boy. Fau was identified through the DNA of his biological father.

Then, the second is Yuni Dwi Saputri who is female. Yuni's DNA was discovered through the toothbrush property.

"If this uses property as private ownership, so this property belonging to Yuni Dwi Saputri that was given by his family, then this must be max everything. So there must be no half," said Ratna.

Then the antemortem number 26, namely, Iskandar, is a 52-year-old male who is compared with the DNA of his biological child. Finally, Okke Durotul Zannah, female, is 24 years old. The comparison is the biological mother.

As is known, the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane crashed around Male Island and Lancang Island, Thousand Islands, or 11 nautical miles from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang-Banten on Saturday, January 9.

Based on manifest data, the aircraft produced in 1994 carried 62 people consisting of 50 passengers and 12 crew members. Of these, 40 adults, seven children, three babies. Meanwhile, the 12 crew consists of six active crews and six extra crews.