CCTV Of Soetta Airport Will Be Used By Indonesian Police To Identify Passengers Of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182

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JAKARTA - The Police Inafis Team has obtained CCTV footage from Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Cengkareng.

This is considered to help identify the passengers of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane that crashed in the waters of the Thousand Islands.

"Currently Inafis has obtained data from CCTV. Later CCTV at the airport, before the victim enters the plane, will be analyzed from our equipment. Hopefully the results will be clear," said AKBP Yani in a press conference held at the National Police Hospital. Kramat Jati, Monday, January 18.

Hopefully this recording will further complement the antemortem data that the Police Hospital has in an effort to identify it. Moreover, all this time, Inafis already has data in the form of passenger fingerprints from the Directorate of Disdukcapil.

"Our fingerprints and faces are matched, curled up in a tool called face recognition," he said.

"Of course, related to our main duties and functions, we need processes and support from all parties. The conditions that currently exist in us are the data covered or collected in the Inafis portable system, then in face recognition and MAMBIS (Mobile Automated Multi-Biometric Identification System). ), "added Yani.

On Sunday, 17 January, five Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 passengers were identified.

They are Fau Nuntius Zai, male 11 months; Yuni Dwi Saputri, 34 years old woman; Iskandar, male 52 years; Okke Durotul Zannah, 24 years old woman; and a person who, based on the request of the family, has not been made public.

The five were identified using the DNA matching method based on the samples submitted by the family to the DVI Team.

During this week, the total number of passengers that have been identified has been 29 people and one of them is a baby.

Previously reported, 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 confirmed 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.