In the tin islands of Indonesia, the plane crash leaves deep scars

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In the tin islands of Indonesia, the plane crash leaves deep scars







PANGKAL PINANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - As Indonesia struggles to determine why a passenger plane crashed this week with the loss of 189 people on board, there is nowhere the impact of its second worst air disaster felt. as deeply as the dream. Bangka-Belitung Islands surrounded by palm trees. 











Susmawati, a primary school teacher, holds a photo of her daughter Wita Seriani and her family, who were victims of Lion Air's JT610 flight, at their home in Pangkal Pinang, Indonesia, October 31, 2018. REUTERS / Tabita Diela





Lion Air's JT610 flight, a nearly new Boeing 737 MAX 8, was en route from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang, the center of the tin mining region of Bangka-Belitung, when it crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff.   

"Bangka-Belitung has never suffered an accident like this before," said Krisna Wiryawan, head of the city's tax office. Seven of its 92 employees were on the condemned flight.   

"We feel deeply hurt," said Wiryawan, speaking at his desk in the tax office, a little worn, with red tiles, rows of flowers with messages of condolence lined up outside.   

Indonesian flags at government offices in Pangkal Pinang were at half mast this week to honor the victims.  

The tax office suffered disproportionate losses as many of its workers travel from Jakarta, and Wiryawan himself said he often took that flight. 

Staff regularly used Lion or other low-cost airlines, instead of the national airline, Garuda, for cost reasons, particularly if it used personal expenses, Wiryawan said. 

According to data compiled by state insurer Jasa Raharja, of the 189 people aboard flight JT610, at least 45 were residents of these islands of 1.4 million people who depend on mining, agriculture, fishing and a small Tourism sector. 

Indonesia is the largest tin exporter in the world thanks to the rich mineral veins in the Bangka-Belitung Islands, although this has come at a price with the areas of the islands with unregulated mining scars with a lunar landscape of craters.            

Still, the industry is a major employer and has attracted workers from all over Indonesia to the islands, off the east coast of the island of Sumatra, approximately halfway between Jakarta and Singapore. 

Four employees of state tin miner PT Timah and three employees of a Timah subsidiary were on the plane. 

LAST MESSAGE 

The company's secretary, Amin Haris Sugiarto, said that Timah expected a miracle and that they could find their employees. 

Timah has sent an emergency response team, which includes a doctor and paramedics, to Jakarta to help the families of its staff. 

Lion Air has moved about 100 relatives of the missing to Jakarta and the Pangkal Pinang airport is preparing for the remains of the victims to return by plane.  

The search and rescue teams have only found body parts of the lost plane. 

In the city of Sungai Liat, about 40 km (25 miles) from Pangkal Pinang, relatives of a couple who were on board the plane with their 15-month-old daughter sought solace by reciting verses from the Koran in a tent set up outside. the house of the family. 

Wita Seriani, a dentist, and her husband Rizal Gilang Perkasa Sanusi Putra, who worked at the state power company, had just celebrated their second wedding anniversary.  

The family members had gone to Jakarta to give DNA samples to help with identification, but Seriani's mother, Susmawati, had been left behind. 

"It's all destiny," she said, speaking softly.  

Susmawati said his daughter had sent him a message 20 minutes before the Jakarta flight so his father could pick them up at the airport. 

"Mom, tell dad we're on board the plane," the message said.   





Written by Ed Davies; Edition by Robert Birsel





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