YLKI: Lion Air Victims Entitled to Get Compensation of Rp1.25bn
30 October 2018 09:58 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian Consumer Institution Foundation (YLKI) asked the Ministry of Transportation to ensure that Lion Air provides compensation for JT 610 plane passengers. The plane was lost contact and crashed on Monday morning, October 29, at 6:33 a.m.
“We ask the Ministry of Transportation to ensure that Lion Air is fully responsible for the civil rights of the passengers as victims,” YLKI Daily Executive Chairman Tulus Abadi said. That means, there must be a guarantee of tuition fees or scholarships for school-aged heirs.
Quoting the Minister of Transportation Regulation No. 77 of 2011, Tulus said that the passengers who died from a plane crash were entitled to compensation of Rp1.25 billion per person.
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“In fact, Lion Air’s management must be able to ensure that the family or heir left will not be abandoned,” he said.
Tulus asked the Ministry of Transportation to increase the supervision to all airlines. “Intensive and in-depth supervision is very important to do to Lion Air, which has been considered to often disappoint its consumers,” Tulus said.
The JT 610 Lion Air plane with the Jakarta - Pangkalpinang flight route had crashed after taking off from Soekarno Hatta International Airport at 6:20 a.m.
“After 13 minutes the plane took off, it crashed around Karawang, West Java,” said Danang Mandala Prihantoro, Communications Strategic officer of Lion Air.
CAESAR AKBAR
