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ACTIVITIES OVER THE INDONESIAN FORENSIC MEDICINE Indonesia is a big country with more than 3000 islands, with more than 220 million populations and has many culture and ethnics as well as local languages. Also its multi religion even though the majority of Indonesian are Moslem. Its geographic has a strategic meaning for many countries, because it lies between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and two continents Asia and Australia. Indonesia also lies in the very active and two long volcano chains and between the Asia and pacific plates, so it has an active movement of the plates as well as the active volcanoes. With all of these, Indonesia is very delicate for disasters either natural or man made disasters, such as volcano eruption, Tsunami, horizontal conflicts or even terrorism, especially if the situation an political situation could not become stable. In other term we could call Indonesia is like a giant supermarket or Hypermarket of disaster because every disaster could happen in Indonesia. With all the latest situation since the beginning of the 21st century the Forensic medicine in Indonesia has becoming more and more advance together with the Disaster Victim Identification we had been trying to always using and committed to use the Interpol DVI standard procedure and right now we have a modern Forensic DNA laboratory with the latest sophisticated equipments and we are beginning to build a National DNA Database centre including the Criminal Database with all the recourses we have. As on February 5 – 6, 2007 with the cooperation between the Indonesian national Police and the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology we conducted an International Symposium on ForensicDNA at the Borobudur International Hotel. It was being officially opened by the Minister of Research and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia.  . The Garuda Crash in Yogyakarta in March 7, 2007, with the DVI Interpol procedure has been applied correctly, and all victims had been identified through a scientific meaning and with an international cooperation.  It was only a few weeks before the Official opening of the new DNA laboratory and the new office building for the Indonesian National DVI Team which being held on March 29, 2007. Annually it has been programmed that we are invited to attend the Annual Meeting of the Interpol DVI Standing committee in Lyon France, and this year it was the 19th conference being held on May 23 – 25, 2007. We usually submitted a presentation report of our activities in forensic and DVI matters.  From June 13 until July 7, 2007 as the result of the operation to the new Forensic DNA Laboratory, 5 personnel were being trained in Australia to become the experts for operating the Forensic DNA Laboratory  
This June we has been invited to attend THE 2nd OFFICIAL MEETING OF ICOFM MEMBER COUNTRIES which being held from June 24 to 26, 2007 On August 24 – 25, 2007 the Indonesian Forensic Medicine Association has successfully conduct a National Conference Meeting in Medan North Sumatera. As for DVI matter, recently we had been appointed the new Indonesian National DVI Team board of management by the Chief of the INP on the National DVI Conference meeting with the Department of Health of the Republic of Indonesia on September 19 – 20, 2007.The meting was officially opened by the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia. Invitation came to us as speaker in two events that took place in two different Asian countries in September 28, 2007 in Bangkok Thailand for the Workshop and symposium on DVI at the General Hospital of the Thai Royal Police and in Hong Kong, China on September 30, 2007 for the International Symposium on Forensic Odontology and DVI. Also in November 2007 there will be three events we are going to attend that are, the 5th International DNA User’s Conference for Investigative Officers in Lyon, France which will be conducted by the Interpol and at the same time also the International Symposium on Forensic DNA: Now and Beyond in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.And for DVI matter also in November 23 to 26, 2007 there will be a workshop on DVI in Surabaya, which is being held by Airlangga State University in collaboration with Monash University, Australia. With all the hard work, idealism and professionalism the Indonesian Forensic Medicine members always tries all its best to finish the duty respectfully. |
