Checking The DNA Of Police Missing Since The Aceh Tsunami, The Result Is 2 Weeks Again

RSJ Aceh Director Makhrozal (two from right) with the Aceh Police's Dokkes team while conducting an examination of a patient suspected to be a police officer who disappeared in the 2004 tsunami, in Banda Aceh / Antara

JAKARTA - The Aceh Mental Hospital (RSJ) together with the Aceh Police Team of Doctors and Health (Dokkes) have started examining deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of patients suspected of being members of the National Police. He was declared missing during the 2004 Aceh tsunami.

"Today friends from the Aceh Police Dokkes, the National Police's Automatic Finger Print Identification System (Inafis), and the Aceh Police Mobile Brigade unit have examined and taken patient DNA samples," said the Director of RSJ Aceh, dr Makhrozal, in Banda Aceh, reported by Antara, Thursday, March 18th.

He explained that in accordance with their coordination with the Aceh Regional Police through Dokkes, examination of the patient's DNA sample had been carried out, then fingerprints, and physical identification of the patient.

"Maybe there are signs from the patient's body that can be recognized by his family or friends," he said.

He conveyed that the patient who is often called Zainal was considered a homeless patient considering that after being escorted by one of the Village Heads from Sampoineit Subdistrict, Aceh Jaya Regency in 2009, no family had visited.

"We also don't have a family to return home, so this patient remains in the RSJ until now, and is in good condition, it's just not able to communicate well," said Makhrozal.

Meanwhile, representatives of the Aceh Regional Police Health Department who attended the Aceh Regional General Hospital, Kompol Dr. M Affandi said that the samples that had been taken from the patient were in the form of venous blood and mouth swabs. Furthermore, there will also be fingerprinting.

The person suspected of being the police / Special

In addition, his team has also collected primary data, secondary data from patients according to the DVI (Disaster Victim Identification) procedure. Furthermore, the sample will be taken to the laboratory center in Jakarta.

"The results will be out in about two weeks. We are currently taking a DNA test sample, later it will be examined as DNA material," he said.

For the physical examination, only secondary signs were seen so that it is not yet certain whether the patient was a member of the police who disappeared during the 2004 Aceh tsunami, said M Affandi.