Syahbandar Still Don't Know KM Osela Owner Drowns On Bangka Belitung Island

Illustration of waters in Central Bangka Regency, Bangka Belitung Province (Babel). (Between)

JAKARTA - The Harbormaster of the Archipelago Fisheries Port (PPN) Tanjungpandan, Belitung, Bangka Belitung Islands Province traced the ownership of the fishing boat KM Osela which sank in the waters of Gelasa Island on Friday, August 15.

"Until now, we are conducting a search regarding the identity and ownership of KM Osela which sank in the waters of Gelasa Island," said the Head of the Tanjungpandan VAT Harbormaster Working Team, Yovan Aspirandi in Tanjungpandan, Tuesday, which was confiscated by Antara. According to him, based on information and news, KM Osela, which sank in the waters of Gelasa Island, departed from the Tanjungpandan VAT port. However, said Yovan, after being checked and checked by a team from Kesyahbandaran PPN Tanjungpandan, the KM Osela departure documents were not found at the Tanjungpandan VAT.

"The document for the KM Osela departure report is not in the Tanjungpandan VAT," he said. He added that KM Osela's departure document at Tanjungpandan port did not find any documents indicating that the first two things did not report his departure or the two ships departed but not from the Tanjungpandan VAT pier. "The ship may have departed from another base or dock apart from the Tanjungpandan VAT, but the base is indeed in the Belitung area," he said.

However, said Yovan, every fishing boat that will go to sea should report departures to the Tanjungpandan VAT Syahbandar.

This is done to anticipate unwanted incidents like today, namely the sinking ship due to bad weather. "If it's like this, we finally have difficulty tracing the identity and ownership of the ship," he said.

Yovan said that currently his party is still coordinating with a number of parties related to the sinking of KM Osela in the waters of Gelasa Island. "We continue to coordinate, one of which is with the Belitung Police Satpolairud regarding the sinking of KM Osela in the waters of Gelasa Island, information that eight people or one have been found safe," he said. Previously, the Pangkalpinang Class B SAR Office received information about the KM Osela accident which broke out due to bad weather and sank in the waters of the Mardalena Basla Island.