The National Search and Relief Agency Team Continues To Search For Missing Victim Of Burned Ship In Sula Islands

Search for missing ship victims (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The Search and Rescue Office of the Ternate Basarnas, North Maluku together with a joint team conducted a search for Dedi Hidayat (43), a missing victim of the KM Karya Indah ship that caught fire in Lifmatola Waters, Sula Islands Regency, last Saturday.

The head of the Ternate Basarnas, Muhammad Arafah in Ternate, said on Sunday that a joint team was continuing the search for one victim of KM Karya Indah which was burned starting at 07.00 a.m. local time to search the area where the accident occurred.

The Joint SAR Team moves to the designated Search Area to carry out search and rescue operations, the team is divided into 5 crews.

In the search, the elements involved were the Sanana SAR Alert Unit Rescue Team, Police personnel, the National Army (TNI), Port Administration Unit Office (KUPP), Bakamla Sea Snake KN, KRI Al-Bakora, and assisted by dozens of local residents.

According to him, for SRU 1 RIB 01 Sanana with a search area of 68.7 NM2. SRU 2 Speed Pol Air Sanana with an area of 68.7 NM2. SRU 3 KN Sea Snake 405 BAKAMLA-RI with a search area of 69.9 NM2. SRU 4 KRI AL BAKORA 867 with a search area of 67.4 NM.

Meanwhile, Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) speedboats, RIB Bakamla, and Bajo community longboats carried out sweeps along the north coast of Waisum Village.

Victim Dedi Hidayat himself and his wife Indrawati are contract teachers from Java Island who were brought in by the local government to teach having three children departing from Ternate to Kepsul by riding KM Karya Indah.

Indrawati herself hopes that the joint SAR team can find her husband in a safe condition and plead for her husband to be found soon.

The passenger ship KM Karya Indah bound for Ternate, Sula Islands, caught fire on Saturday in the waters off Mangoli Island, with 275 passengers and 14 crew members being rescued by the joint team of the Sanana SAR Alert Unit Rescue Unit, but one passenger was declared missing.