Sriwijaya Air swears to satisfy rights of households of SJ 182 victims

Jakarta – Sriwijaya Air’s management has said it is ensuring it fulfills the rights of the families of victims of flight SJ-182, which crashed while on its method to Pontianak from Jakarta on January 9, 2021.

” We will be dedicated to providing the rights of the victims as quickly as possible,” stated Sriwijaya Air president director Jefferson Jauwena after scattering flowers from the KRI Semarang ship on the Seribu Islands waters on Friday.

The process of handing over compensation to the victims’ next of kin was symbolically begun on Wednesday (January 20, 2021) in Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.

The households have actually been provided a settlement of Rp1.25 billion, in accordance with federal government guidelines, and Rp250 million as additional payment, bringing the total Rp1.5 billion.

The event of scattering of flowers in the waters off Lancang Island and Laki Island on board the KRI Semarang, as a type of last regard to the victims, was gone to by around 30 member of the family of the SJ-182 victims.

The Sriwijaya Air management, representatives from the National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC), the Ministry of Transportation, the Indonesian Navy, the National Browse and Rescue Company (Basarnas), state-owned insurance provider Jasa Raharja, along with a variety of Sriwijaya Air and Nam Air team members also went to the event.

” We are grieving under the loss; it is indisputable that we likewise feel deep sadness. I personally am likewise very ravaged by this situation,” Jauwena stated.

The Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 was headed from Jakarta to Pontianak when it lost contact at 2: 40 p.m. regional time on January 9,2021 It was later found to have actually crashed in the waters off Kepulauan Seribu.

The plane had actually removed from Soekarno Hatta Airport at 2: 36 p.m. regional time after a delay due to unfavorable weather condition. The flight had been earlier scheduled to take off at 1: 35 p.m. local time.

Based on the flight’s manifest, it was bring 62 individuals– 50 passengers and 12 crew members.

It has been earlier reported that the search and rescue (SAR) operation for the victims and the wreckage of the flight has actually been formally ended. The SAR Firm carried out the operation for seven days and extended it by six days.

The joint SAR team collected the remains of the victims in 324 body bags, based on which, the DVI group identified 47 of the victims. (INE)

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