Compensation For Family Of Victims Of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Starting To Be Given, Jokowi: Immediately Finish Everything

President Joko Widodo hands over compensation to the families of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane victims (Photo: BPMI Setpres 2021)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo witnessed the handover of compensation to the families of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft victims. The handover was made at the JICT II Integrated Command Post, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.

Jokowi admits that he is sorry for the plane crash to the victims' families. He also asked that the full compensation be immediately completed.

"Thank you for this compensation and it will be resolved immediately for all victims and passengers. I also want to convey my deep condolences to the family, hopefully they will be given sincerity and patience," said Jokowi at the location, Wednesday, January 20.

Symbolically, Jasa Raharja provided compensation of IDR 50 million per passenger to the families of the victims as many as 36 people.

Then, in parallel, Sriwijaya gave compensation of IDR 1.25 billion per passenger to the heirs after the victim's family completed a letter showing the heirs issued by the local government.

In this regard, Jokowi also visited the Basarnas and TNI AL posts to ask for information about the SAR operation to search Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 today.

For information, the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane was declared to have crashed in the waters of the Thousand Islands, to be precise between Male Island and Lancang Island on Saturday, January 9, 2021.

Data compiled by Basarnas on the eleventh day of search, namely Tuesday, January 19 at 20.30 WIB, explained that there were findings of 324 body bags containing body parts.

Then, as many as 115 aircraft materials were found, with the details of 63 small bags containing aircraft debris and 55 large aircraft pieces.

Currently, the SAR team has also found a black box type flight data recorder (FDR) and a black box cockpit voice recorder (CVR) shell. Meanwhile, CVR core memory has not been found.

Based on the findings of the SAR team in the form of body parts and properties belonging to the victims, the National Police's disaster victim identification (DVI) team has identified 40 victims as of Tuesday, January 19 at 17.00 WIB.