The president arrived at the Integrated Command Center for Evacuation of Victims of Lion Air flight JT 610 in JICT on Tuesday around 4:10 p.m. local time.
He met with a number of SAR officers who were on duty and took a look at the items recovered from the Lion Air JT 610 airplane.
Chief of the National SAR Agency (Basarnas), M Syaugi, as well as Minister of Transportation, Budi Karya Sumadi, gave explanations on the items found in the ocean and believed them to be related to the JT 610 flight.
Previously, Jokowi had also reviewed the integrated command post of the JT 610 plane crash in Terminal 1, Soekarno Hatta International Airport, on Monday (29 Oct) after a working visit from Bali.
Jokowi also met the family of JT 610 plane crash victims.
"We are working as hard as we can on the field and at the location, so that the airplane frame and the victims could be found immediately," he stated.
In addition, PT Angkasa Pura II has activated the crisis center and integrated command post, which is a joint unit of all parties, including the Police, National Military Force, Basarnas, National Transportation Safety Committee, and the Ministry of Transportation, since Monday (Oct 29).
There are two posts built at Soekarno-Hatta Airport as well as in Pangkal Pinang to provide information to the families of the victims.
Meanwhile, families of victims were also seen coming into the Evacuation Post in the JICT to look for personal items that belonged to their family members who were on board.
For example, Eni Siti Nuraini, her children, and her relatives visited the Tanjung Priok JICT 2 evacuation post on Tuesday to search for the personal belongings of her husband, who was a victim of the Lion Air JT 610 airplane crash.
She claimed to have come to the post, as she was directed by personnel on duty at the National Police Hospital.
"I waited for certainty and information about my husband, but I am yet to receive any. Then the hospital directed me to come here to look for my husband`s belongings," she remarked while holding back her tears.
Nuraini and her family, who live in Tasikmalaya, immediately went to Jakarta after hearing about the crash of Lion Air JT 610 in the waters of Karawang Regency, West Java, on Monday.
A DNA test was also carried out on her child, in order to match with the body.
Reporting by Bayu Prasetyo and Aubrey Kandelila Fanani
Editing by Aria Cindyara
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Editor: Yosep Hariyadi
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