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Bodies of 13 RI workers killed in Bering Sea arrive in Jakarta
The bodies of 13 Indonesian workers employed on the South Korean fishing ship Oryong 501, which sank in the Bering Sea last month, were received by Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi in Jakarta on Friday
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he bodies of 13 Indonesian workers employed on the South Korean fishing ship Oryong 501, which sank in the Bering Sea last month, were received by Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi in Jakarta on Friday.
The bodies were flown from South Korea aboard Korean Air cargo plane, which landed at the Soekarno-Hatta airport in Tangerang, Banten, at 2:50 a.m. Friday.
Six of the deceased were identified as Mujahidin, Mukhamad Idris, Warno, Nur Kolis, Harjono and Barjo from Central Java; and another three, from West Java, were identified as Atep Roni, Dede Iksani and Haryanto.
Two others were from Maluku, Albert Talapessy and Gaspar Jantje Tomasila, while the remaining two were identified as Mukhtar Mokodompit from North Sulawesi and Syarifuddin from South Sulawesi.
The foreign minister led a ceremony in which the bodies of the victims were given to their respective families. The event was attended by the head of the Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI), Nusron Wahid, and the South Korean Ambassador to Indonesia, Cho Tae-Young.
Minister Retno conveyed her appreciation for the cooperation between Indonesia, South Korea and Russia, which had been continuous since the first day of the disaster, Dec. 1, 2014.
"We (the foreign ministry) directly asked Sajo Industries, as the owner of the ship, to meet all the rights of the ship's crew," Retno said as quoted by Antara news agency. "We don't want the rights of Indonesian workers to be neglected," she said.
Three other bodies from the same accident were scheduled to arrived in Jakarta on Friday evening. Two of them were from West Java and one was from Central Java.
Seven people survived the sinking of the Oryong 501. The remains of 27 people had been recovered, while at least another 26 remained unaccounted for as of the middle of last month. (hhr)
