Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Victim Identification Process Is Officially Closed, Leaving 3 Victims

ILLUSTRATION / Debris of Sriwijaya Air (Diah Ayu / VOI)

JAKARTA - The National Police's Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team officially closed the identification process for the victim of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 crash in the waters of the Kepulauan Seribu.

Head of the National Police Medical and Health Center (Kapusdokkes) General Rusdianto said, based on the passenger manifest data there are still three people who have not been identified.

"On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, at 13.50 p.m. local time, the SJ-182 operation was officially declared closed," Rusdianto told reporters, Thursday, March 2.

The three victims included Arkana Nadi Wahyu, 7 months old, Dania, 2 years old, and Panca Widya Nursanti, who was 46 years old.

The identification process was closed because all samples found had been examined. With a total of 744 samples, consisting of 174 antemortem samples and 570 postmortem samples.

"We carried out reconciliation during the DVI SJ 182 operation since January 9, 2021, until now 15 reconciliation hearings have been held and succeeded in identifying 59 bodies consisting of 30 men and 29 women with a percentage of 95.2 percent", he said.

For information, the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft on the Jakarta-Pontianak route lost contact in Kepulauan Seribu 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.