Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 14.40 WIB, the duka newspaper calls on the water ground, the Sriwijaya Air flight number SJ 182 with the number of passengers 62 people, the route of Jakarta-Pontianak lost contact and then known to fall between the Island of Lancang and the Island of Man, Thousand Islands, DKI Jakarta.
Following the event Panglima TNI Marsekal Hadi Tjahjanto gave a direct command to the Head of the Marine Force Staff (KASAL) Laksamana TNI Yudo Margono to cover the special forces of TNI AL in the process of searching and rescue or SAR (Search and Rescue) in the region.
The location falls a plane that is a sea water, making a Katak Force Command Unit (Sat Kopaska) based on Pondok Dayung, Jakarta, became a flagship for search mission, combing under water with its dive.
Sat Kopaska established a barak tent on Tanjung Kait beach, Tangerang, Banten, on Sunday, January 10, 2021 early days, to become the posko of man frogs doing humanitarian missions looking for victims and pieces of armor.
On that day also in the cold morning at 05.30 WIB, the complete dive with their equipment is preparing to start the search. Fast boats Kal Kilat and Sea Rider waits on the pier to deliver the frog man to the search location in the center of the longest waves.
Dark clouds slip on the site of search operations in the waters of the Thousand Islands, Jakarta, struck the frogs who prepare their lettuce equipment. Unless they are prepared to bring findings on the sea based on the accident.
The human beings also began to dive towards the depth of 18 meters, and slowly the distance of view began to be limited due to the sludge deposit that rises, demanding them for patience in the search process. On the strong ocean of current also inhibits dive movements and require them to be extra cautious.
One after the rest of the accident they are nervous and put into the jenazah bag, and brought to the surface to be delivered to KRI Rigel 933. Furthermore, the finding was carried by the carrier ship to the JICT dock for further data and investigated.
After 13 days, the search operation was officially stopped on Thursday, January 21, 2021. The combined team has collected 324 jenazah pockets, 64 small aircraft flakes pockets and 54 large aircraft parts. The team said back to their nest.
Photo & Text : Muhammad Adimaja
Author : Fanny Octavianus
