inp.polri.go.id - Jakarta. The police ensured that the identification of victims of the Glodok Plaza fire will continue as it is part of the Indonesian National Police's (INP) humanitarian mission.

"We are continuing this humanitarian mission so that we can immediately identify the missing people based on traces of bodies found in 12 body bags," said Head of Metro Jaya Regional Police Public Relations, Senior Superintendent Ade Ary Syam Indradi on Saturday (1/25/2025).

So far, INP disaster victim identification (DVI) team has identified nine of the total 12 bodies found. And at the end, the three bodies of victims of the fire at Glodok Plaza, Tamansari, West Jakarta, have also been successfully identified.

Ade explains that the main purpose of this identification process is to confirm the identities of the victims, so that the bodies can be immediately returned to the families for proper burial.

"So, the results of the identification process carried out by the DVI Team are primarily intended so that the bodies can be identified and can be immediately returned to their families for proper burial," he explained.

Furthermore, Ade detailed that the police humanitarian mission was carried out starting from the process of searching for bodies, combing the crime scene and evacuating victims to the Kramat Jati Bhayangkara Hospital to be identified by the DVI team.

"Identification is carried out based on antemortem data submitted by the family who reported the loss of their family, then the identification process is carried out and finally postmortem data is obtained," he said.

Then, a reconciliation is carried out until it is finally concluded that the body or the limbs can be identified or not.

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