Jakarta (Antara Bali) - The six-member Indonesian Polices DVI team
arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday to help identify the victims of
the crashed Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which included 12 Indonesian
nationals.
The teams six members were Dr Antonius R. Castilani, Putut Tjahjo
Widodo, Dr D. Aji Kardomo, Dr Sumy Hastry Purwanti, Dentist Ahmad Fauzi,
and Dentist Daniel Agustinus, Danang Waskito, the first secretary of
the Indonesian Embassy in The Hague noted in a statement on Friday.
In order to coordinate the activities of the team, they met
Indonesian Ambassador to the Netherlands Retno L.P. Marsudi while in the
European nation.
The DVI team joins an international investigation team for the
identification process of all victims being carried out in Korporaal van
Oudheusdenkazerne, Hilversum, the Netherlands.
The victims bodies placed in 40 coffins were flown from Kharkiv,
Ukraine, by the Netherlands Hercules C-130 and Australias Boeing C-17.
National Police Chief General Sutarman earlier in Jakarta remarked
that the polices DVI team and several provincial police personnel had
conducted an ante-mortem examination by collecting data and DNA samples
from the victims family members.
The Indonesian polices DVI team members had garnered global
recognition when they had successfully identified the victims of Russian
Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, which had crashed on Mount Salak in West
Java several years ago, Sutarman emphasized.
Spokesman of the Indonesian Police Brigadier General Boy Rafli
Amar stated in Jakarta on July 23, 2014, that a team of seven personnel
led by DVIs Director Senior Commissioner Anton Pastilani had left for
Ukraine on July 22, to assist with the identification process of the
Indonesian victims.
The ill-fated Malaysian plane, which had taken off from the
Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on July 17, 2014, and was
carrying 283 passengers and 15 crew members, lost contact while flying
over the eastern Ukrainian airspace, in a region controlled by
pro-Russian rebels. Later, it was discovered that the plane had been hit
by a surface-to-air missile over the war zone.
Among those who had perished in the crash were 12 Indonesians,
15 crew members, three infants, 192 Dutch nationals, 44 Malaysians, 27
Australians, ten Britons, four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos,
one Canadian, and one New Zealander.(WDY)
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