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PublishedFeb 10, 2021, 8:33 pm SGT
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The family lived in Jakarta, while the girls’ father worked in West Kalimantan.
They were preparing to move to the Borneo province to be together. Rahmania had already changed her daughter’s school enrollment ahead of the move.
On January 9, he waited at Pontianak airport for them to disembark.
But the family never got the chance to reunite.
Rahmania Ekanda and her daughters – aged six and the other, two-and-a-half – were three of the 62 passengers on board flight SJ182, when it crashed into the Java Sea minutes after takeoff.
In Kediri, East Java, her family is in mourning.
Her younger sister Neyna Rahmadani told Al Jazeera they are still in shock.