Tomorrow, Family Of Sriwijaya Air Victims SJ-182 Sows Flowers Around Lancang Island

Findings related to the joint search and rescue operation for Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 at the JICT2 Command Post (Diah Ayu / VOI)

JAKARTA - The SAR team will bring the families of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 victims to sow flowers in the waters around Lancang Island, Thousand Islands tomorrow.

Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi said the victims' families would go to the location of the crash point of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane using the KRI Semarang ship.

"To honor the victims, tomorrow at 6 am with the KRI Semarang, representatives of 50 families of the victims will go to the surrounding islands to do flower sowing," Budi said at the JICT II Integrated Command Post, North Jakarta, Thursday, January 21.

The joint SAR operation against the search for Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft was officially closed on the thirteenth day. The search for Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 has been going on for 13 days. The search was started from Saturday, January 9th to January 14th. Then, it was extended to January 18 and again to January 21.

Even though the integrated operation is stopped, the SAR team will continue to search. The follow-up operation will be moved, from previously at the JICT II Post, Tanjung Priok, to the post on Lancang Island, Thousand Islands.

Further operations on Lancang Island will be led by the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT), with the help of the SAR team from Basarnas, TNI and Polri.

"We are committed to continuing to make efforts and transfer the lead (command) to the KNKT to carry out further operations on Lancang Island," said Budi.

In this operation, the NTSC will focus on looking for a black box with a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) type that has yet to be found. Meanwhile, the black box flight data recorder (FDR) has been found since Tuesday, January 12.

"We hope that from the prayers of all of the people in this continued operation there will also be elements of assistance from SAR. So in the CVR search operation, we will also see if there is something, we will report it to Basarnas," said the Chairman of KNKT Soerjanto Tjahjono.

Continuing, the Head of Basarnas Marshal Madya Bagus Puruhito said SAR members will also continue to look for body parts in this follow-up operation.

"In this case, if we find parts of the victim's body, of course the SAR members who are part of our team will immediately report and follow up," said Bagus.

The Sriwijaya Air plane lost contact and crashed between Male Island and Lancang Island, Thousand Islands on Saturday, January 9.

Based on SAR operations from the first to the last day, the SAR team's findings totaled 324 body bags containing body parts or body parts. Then, as many as 119 aircraft materials, with details of 68 small bags containing aircraft debris and 55 large aircraft pieces.