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Friday, January 9, 2015

Jokowi orders AirAsia to pay Flight 8501 families

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has ordered Indonesia AirAsia to compensate the families of those on board Flight 8501. – Reuters pic, January 9, 2014.Indonesian President Joko Widodo has ordered Indonesia AirAsia to compensate the families of those on board Flight 8501. – Reuters pic, January 9, 2014.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has ordered insurance be paid out to the Indonesia AirAsia crash victims' next of kin, regardless of the flight's legal status, The Jakarta Post reported today.
On behalf of Widodo, Indonesian Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan told the daily that the country's regulation stipulates a Rp 1.25 billion (RM349,000) payout for each passenger by the airline.
Indonesia media had earlier reported that Indonesia AirAsia only distributed forms to be filled in by QZ8501 passengers’ next of kin for the initial compensation of Rp 300 million per victim, reported The Jakarta Post.
Surabaya mayor Tri Rismaharini told The Jakarta post that her administration was ready to sue AirAsia if it failed to adequately compensate families of QZ8501 passengers.
The Surabaya municipal administration is now collecting data on the victims, including their valuables, which will later be used for insurance purposes and matters related to the beneficiary rights of the affected families, said the paper.
Indonesia AirAsia president director Sunu Widyatmoko was quoted as saying the airline had ensured each victim would receive Rp 1.25 billion in compensation, which would be disbursed when the recovery and identification process had been completed.
Jonan also said the findings from an inquiry on whether other airlines had flown outside their designated schedules would be made public.
Flight QZ8501 vanished from radar screens on December 28, less than halfway into a two-hour flight from Indonesia's second-biggest city of Surabaya to Singapore. There were no survivors.
Indonesia AirAsia, 49% owned by the Malaysia-based AirAsia budget group, has come under pressure from the authorities in Jakarta since the crash.
The Indonesian transport ministry has suspended the carrier's Surabaya-Singapore licence, saying it only had permission to fly the route on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Flight QZ8501 took off on a Sunday, though the ministry said this had no bearing on the accident.
While the cause of the crash is not known, Reuters reported the national weather bureau as saying that  seasonal tropical storms common in the area were likely to be a factor.
- TMI

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