The Russian government promised to bring a team of DNA analysis to help identify the bodies of victims Sukhoi Super Jet 100 at the Police Hospital, East Jakarta. It was submitted by the Chief of Police Hospitals Bhayangkara Brigadier Agus Prayitno a news conference after receiving five body bags, on Saturday (05/12/2012). "The Russians have not got here, but they will help the DVI teams from Indonesia to DNA identification," said Agus. In addition to teams from Russia, Disaster Victim Identification team (DVI) Police also assisted by a number of experts from universities, including University of Indonesia, University of Padjadjaran, UB and a team of forensic doctors from Banten. All results will be reported periodically indetifikasi DVI DVI Indonesia at the International center in Lyon, France. "There is a forensic pathologist, odontologi forensics, forensic DNA, forensic anthropologist who helped identify it," he explained. In the meantime, it's been five body bags brought to the Police Hospital. The victim's family began to arrive to meet the post DVI. They were given a special place to wait. Access to the pouch where the bodies are still barred from two pieces of fabric and the police line. Only the police team is allowed to enter. All the families who came, asked to register the name, address and phone number in the guest book that has been prepared. Saturday 12 May 2012 http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12142999-russian-team-helps-identify-victims-of-sukhoi

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As relatives wait, minister says stop circulating crash pictures.

A senior minister says people should stop circulating pictures of the victims of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 that crashed near Mt. Salak in West Java. “I have received information that pictures of the victims have already been circulating through mobile phones. This kind of action will be painful for the victims’ families. Please, stop it,” Coordinating People’s Welfare Minister Agung Laksono told reporters at Halim Perdanakusuma airport in East Jakarta on Saturday as quoted by kompas.com. Agung's statement follows the circulation on BlackBerry Messenger on Friday of a photo purportedly taken at the crash site depicting the remains of two victims. Meanwhile, dozens of relatives of the victims have assembled in front of the National Police Hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta, where officials have taken five body bags containing the partial remains of victims and their personal effects for identification. Officials have prepared tents in the hospital's courtyard, along with televisions tuned to news stations, for relatives as they wait. Separately, Sr. Comr. Anton Castilani, chief of the National Police’s disaster victim identification unit, said autopsies of the victims might take weeks, months or even years given that the remains were not intact and decomposition had already begun. Saturday, 12 May 2012 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/05/12/minister-urges-citizens-stop-circulating-graphic-pictures-sukhoi-s-victims.html

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Relatives of Superjet Crash Victims Observe Recovered Bodies

The relatives of those killed when a Sukhoi Superjet plane crashed on a remote hilltop in Indonesia earlier this week gathered at a hospital in the capital Jakarta on Saturday to observe identification of the victims' bodies, the Jakarta Post newspaper reported. The partial remains of several victims' bodies from the May 9 crash were airlifted to Jakarta airport earlier on Saturday and then taken to the National Police Hospital for identification. A post-mortem of the bodies may take weeks or even years as some have already decomposed, said Anton Castilani, chief of the National Police's disaster victim identification unit. All 45 people on board the Russian-made Superjet 100 - most of them representatives of Indonesian airlines - were killed after the plane slammed into a steep mountainside outside Jakarta. The jet, Russia's first new commercial plane since the fall of the Soviet Union two decades ago, was on a demonstration flight for potential customers. The search for the aircraft’s two black boxes will start after all the bodies are evacuated from the scene, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) head Mikhail Pogosyan said on Saturday. “Both the Russian and the Indonesian sides are interested in the earliest, as well as most objective investigation of the tragedy,” he said. “We expect the first part of the operation, including the evacuation of the bodies, to be completed within 24 hours,” he added. The plane crashed in a remote area on rugged terrain and if it proves impossible to find the black boxes quickly “we will use other sources of objective information,” he added. The aircraft had experienced no technical problems ahead of the flight, its second of the day, Pogosyan said on Friday, adding it was still premature to say if pilot error caused the crash Saturday 12 May 2012 http://en.ria.ru/world/20120512/173408688.html

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