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        "id": 1679065,
        "msgid": "only-one-office-exit-at-terra-drone-employees-trapped-during-fire-1776246657",
        "date": "2026-04-15 16:16:18",
        "title": "Only One Office Exit at Terra Drone, Employees Trapped During Fire",
        "author": "",
        "source": "DETIK",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Legal",
        "summary": "In a Jakarta court trial, a police witness testified that the Terra Drone office, which suffered a deadly fire killing 22 employees, had only one exit, no fire alarms, and inadequate evacuation routes, trapping workers on upper floors. The CEO, Michael Wisnu Wardhana, faces charges of negligence under Indonesia's Criminal Code for failing to prevent and mitigate the blaze, which started from stored lithium batteries in a building lacking emergency stairs and proper fire extinguishers. This case underscores critical safety lapses in urban office buildings and potential corporate accountability in Indonesia's business sector.",
        "content": "<p>Prosecutors presented a witness who stated that there was only one\naccess point for entry and exit at the PT Terra Drone office that caught\nfire. The witness said employees were trapped on the upper floors of the\nbuilding during the fatal blaze.<\/p>\n<p>This was conveyed by Kanit Reserse unit PPA and PPO of Polres Metro\nJakarta Pusat, Joni Purwanto, while serving as a witness for the\nprosecution in the case of alleged negligence in the PT Terra Drone\nbuilding fire, with the defendant being the Director of PT Terra Drone\nIndonesia, Michael Wisnu Wardhana. The trial was held at the Central\nJakarta District Court on Wednesday (15\/4\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you arrived at the scene, you secured the area and gathered\ninformation from witnesses to the incident on 9 December. You stated\nthere was no smoke alarm, no fire alarm, no evacuation route, and only\none exit access on the ground floor. Did you find these facts in the\nfield?\u201d asked member judge Sunoto.<\/p>\n<p>Joni then provided an explanation. Joni said there was no smoke alarm\nand only one exit access in the building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith permission, Your Honour, when I arrived at the fire scene, our\nposition was in front of the Terra Drone building. The firefighters were\ncarrying out their duties, so we were in front. There was thick black\nsmoke and all sorts. So if Your Honour says the front access is only\none, that\u2019s correct. That\u2019s the only front access to the exit door,\u201d\nsaid Joni.<\/p>\n<p>He said employees from the upper floors could no longer exit the\nbuilding. He mentioned that surviving employees said no alarm\nsounded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we were there, the employees could no longer exit, Your\nHonour. All the employees were trapped upstairs, based on information\nfrom the surviving employees who were with us in front. As for the alarm\nsound, there was none, let alone the other things Your Honour\nmentioned,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The judge probed the presence of portable fire extinguishers (APAR)\nin the building. Joni said his team secured APARs from the ground floor\nof the building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI forget the type, Your Honour, but they were secured from below,\nYour Honour. From the main ground floor, we took them,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the Director of PT Terra Drone Indonesia, Michael Wisnu\nWardhana, was charged with negligence in preventing, reducing, and\nextinguishing the fire that occurred at the PT Terra Drone office\nbuilding in Central Jakarta. The fire resulted in the deaths of 22 PT\nTerra Drone employees.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment hearing for Michael Wisnu was held at the Central\nJakarta District Court on Wednesday (11\/3\/2026). The case is being tried\nby the chief judge Purwanto S Abdullah with members Ni Kadek Susantiani\nand Sunoto.<\/p>\n<p>The PT Terra Drone office building fire occurred on Tuesday\n(9\/12\/2025). Prosecutors said the building was used as a storage place\nfor PT Terra Drone\u2019s business goods, including 6s 30,000 mAh lithium\npolymer drone batteries, which had only one main door without any\nemergency stairs.<\/p>\n<p>The PT Terra Drone office building consists of 7 floors, with each\nfloor connected by access stairs and 1 lift unit, with the building\ndimensions approximately 16 metres long and 9 metres wide. The general\nconstruction of the building includes a concrete flat roof with iron\nframework rooftop, gypsum ceiling with iron framework, brick walls with\niron framework, and ceramic floors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe windows in the building cannot be opened; they are permanently\ninstalled. There is only one main door, with no emergency doors or\nstairs,\u201d said the prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors stated that during the fire, employees struggled to\nextinguish the initial sparks because there were no APARs. The fire then\ngrew larger, resulting in 22 PT Terra Drone employees becoming\nvictims.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors charged Michael Wisnu with violating Article 474\nparagraph 3 or Article 188 of Law Number 1 of 2023 on the Criminal\nCode.<\/p>",
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