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Airport death: Indonesia seeks more compensation
By Asif Fuard and Vanessa Sridharan
Indonesia says it is seeking substantial compensation for the family of its national killed in an accident at the Bandaranaike International Airport. A 36-year-old Indonesian woman, identified as Muskana Dindijejen, a mother of two children aged 5 and 7, was killed when an airport truck hit the descending ramp of a SriLankan Airlines aircraft last Sunday.

She was to be on transit in Colombo while on her way to Dubai where she was employed. An Indonesian embassy official said that the Rs. 1,000,000 compensation the Airline was planning to pay the victim’s family was unacceptable.

“We are trying to get substantial compensation for the victim’s family,” Nasaruddin Siradz, the embassy’s head of Consular Affairs said.
He said that according to preliminary inquiries, the driver of the SriLankan Airlines truck swerved to the left instead of applying brakes to avoid collision with an oncoming vehicle.

In the process he hit the descending ramp. Mr. Siradz said the airline had flown the body to Indonesia and sent a cheque through the Sri Lankan High Commission in Jakarta to the victim’s family to meet the funeral expenses. SriLankan Airlines Corporate Communication Chief Chandana de Silva said they were awaiting the final report of the police probe to finalise insurance claims. He said a substantial compensation would be paid to the victim’s family.

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