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July 18, 2009 Muninggar Sri Saraswati Father Still Searching for Son After Blast Victor Mokodompis, 65, could not hide his disappointment on Saturday when he still could not get any information about the whereabouts of his son, Evert Mokodompis, who was working at the JW Marriott Hotel on Friday when it was struck by a suicide bomber. "I've visited five hospitals to find him... or his body," he told reporters at Sukanto Police Hospital in East Jakarta. Victor said that the hotel management said Evert, 33, was among the victims. Evert worked at the hotel's buffet in the restaurant where the bombing took place. But Victor still has no certainty about his son's fate. "I still have no information about him," he said. Evert escaped a bomb attack at the same hotel in 2003 because he had a day off work when the blast took place. Searching the hospital was the father's last hope, as some bodies are still being identified. "We can not determine when the identification process will finish. It depends on the conditions of the corpses and the body parts," said Brig. Gen. Edi SP, the head of the National Police medical and health unit. Edi called on families, relatives and friends of the victims to help with identifying the corpses to speed up the process. "They usually know small details such as scars or tattoos," he said. Brig. Gen. Aidi Rawas, the hospital director, said that the identification process could take up to three months. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
