据《雅加达邮报》9月14日报道，自8月16日在奥克西比尔发生的特利加那航空公司坠机事件以来，印度尼西亚灾难遇难者身份确认团队通过DNA测试，又确认出13具遇难者遗体。在巴布亚首都查亚普拉来的Bhayangkara医院，通过检查主数据和辅助数据这个团队目前总共确认出27具遇难者遗体。

Using DNA testing, Indonesia’s Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team has identified the bodies of 13 more victims from the Aug. 16 Trigana Air plane crash in Oksibil, Papua, Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. Paulus Waterpauw has said.

The team had already identified 27 victims through examining primary and secondary data at Bhayangkara Hospital in Papua’s capital Jayapura.

“Today the DVI team succeeded in identifying 13 more victims’ bodies at the National Police Headquarters’ laboratory through a series of DNA tests,” the Papua Police chief said.

He added that with the addition of the 13 newly identified bodies, the DVI team had now successfully identified 40 out of the 54 people on board the Trigana Air flight.

The 13 bodies have now been handed over to victims’ families. The bodies include two cabin-crew members, Mario Reso Bintoro and Ika Nugraeni Sukmaputri.

“So, all cabin-crew victims have been found,” Insp. Gen. Paulus asserted.

Police have also identified all four bodies of the Jayapura post-office workers who were carrying Rp 6.5 billion (US$465,000) in cash on board for delivery to low-income residents of Pegunungan Bintang, Police Commissioner Ramon Amiman, head of medical affairs at Papua Police Headquarters, said.

The names of the recently identified victims are Engelbertus Kasibmabin, 26, a student from Okmabob district; Wa Ode Suryana, 33, of Tampo, Southeast Sulawesi; Irenius Natimkonab, 48, a civil servant at the education office in Pegunungan Bintang district; Ronald Dilam, 15, a student from Jayapura; Mario Reso Buntoro, 36, a Trigana Air technician from Cinere, Jakarta; Epi Ardi, 42, of Painam, West Sumatra; Yustinus Hurulean, 53, an employee of PT Pos Indonesia in Jayapura; Kayus Kipka, 19, village administration secretary in Pegunungan Bintang; Pariyem from Cilacap, Central Java; Menakem Mote, 29, a bank officer from Paniai, Papua; Ika Nugraeni Sukmaputri, 29, a Trigana Air stewardess from Ciamis in West Java; and Endah Mustika, 36, a civil servant from Pegunungan Bintang.

“DNA identification takes time, but we will never ever give up on identifying all victims,” Ramon said.

Area manager for PT Trigana Air in Papua Bustoni Eka Prayitno said that of 27 identified bodies; the families of only 12 of them have received insurance coverage.

“We hope [the remaining] relatives will complete the administrative requirements for making an insurance claim,” Bustoni said. (DK)(++++)