The 18 corpses from the Thursday plane crash in Bogor will be returned to their relatives Sunday morning, Air Force deputy chief of staff Vice Marshall I Gusti Made Oka said Saturday.
The Air Force had planned to return the bodies Saturday, but were unable to because of fog.
"All bodies have been put into bags and moved from the wreckage to a 200-meter makeshift helipad," Oka said, as quoted by Antara, at Mt. Salak hill, Bogor.
When the weather settles Sunday, small Balcow helicopters will land on the makeshift helipad and transport the bodies to the Army's helipad in Gunung Malang village in Tenjolaya, Bogor. Only small helicopters like the Bolcow can land on the makeshift helipad, he said.
Later, the bodies will be picked up by larger Super Puma helicopters to be transported to Halim Perdana Kusuma airport in East Jakarta.
"A Bolcow can carry two to three bodies per trip while a Super Puma can carry up to 10 bodies," he said.
The team has prepared two Bolcow helicopters and a Super Puma.
Oka said he decided not to move the bodies Saturday after receiving a report about bad weather. Rough geographical conditions also deterred the team from moving the bodies, he said.
Members of the rescue team bagged the bodies and tied them onto ropes, also tied to a number of trees. The bodies were then pulled up and taken to the helipad area.
Oka said he had ordered supplies for the team members who had to stay in the mountains for another night.
The rescue team had been camping on the mountain since Thursday.
The 1984 Casa airplane left Halim Air Base at 9:23 a.m. on Thursday, and contact was lost at 10:28 a.m.
The plane was carrying 18 people, three of them were foreigners working at Credent Asia, a firm supplying digital mapping.
The foreigners were identified as Kwong Ping Anthony of the UK, Tan Hong King of Singapore, and Mahendra Kumar of India.
The passengers were on an aerial surveillance training mission.
On Friday, locals reported they spotted bodies in a gorge in Tenjolaya district, about 60 kilometers south of Jakarta.
To transport some of the bodies to their hometowns, the Air Force had organized two Hercules C-130 aircraft, a Fokker 27 and a CN-235 aircraft at Halim airport Saturday afternoon.
The aircraft will fly the bodies of Maj. Bendot Arjiyanto (captain pilot); Capt. Agung Priantoro (co-pilot); Capt. Doni Wicaksono of the Air Force Aerial Surveillance and Mapping Agency; and Warrant Officer Agus Riyanto to Abdul Rahmansaleh Air Force Airport in Malang, East Java.
The bodies of Lt. Col. Wahyu Hidayat of the Defense Ministry, and First Lt. Ronald Pyar of the surveillance and mapping agency, will be flown to Hasanudin Air Force base in Makassar.
One aircraft will transport Maj. Susika Murdayanti, also of the surveillance and mapping agency, to Air Force base Iswahyudi in Madiun in East Java.
The body of Col. Albertus Sulaksono, secretary of Air Force Flight and Occupational Safety Agency, will be transported to Air Force base Adi Sucipto in Yogyakarta, while the body of First Lt. Bambang Triyanto, a flight engineer, will be flown to Adi Sumarmo Air Force base in Surakarta.
-- Theresia Sufa contributed to this report from Bogor, West Java.
