“Goodbye”: the moving song of the crew of the Indonesian submarine before the sinking

A video of sailors from the sunk Indonesian submarine showing them singing a song called “goodbye” inside the ship has gone viral and has moved many Indonesian netizens after the tragic deaths of its 53 occupants.

The video was recorded with a cell phone inside the KRI-Nanggala-402 submarine before disappearing into the waters north of the Indonesian island of Bali last Wednesday and was located on Sunday divided into three to over 800 meters deep. After an international search operation.

“Although I am not ready to miss you, I am not ready to be without you, I expect the best of you”, sing the sailors, one of them with a guitar, in the presence of the commander of the submersible, Heri Oktavian.

Se trata de la canción “See you soon” from the Indonesia Endank Soekamti band, from Yogyakarta.

One of the first to share the video on social media a few days ago was Henrik Paulsson, professor at the Swedish Defense University and friend of Heri Oktavian.

“They are singing a song called ‘Sampai Jumpa’ which means ‘goodbye’ (…), and the song is about a goodbye, it looks like they are singing it as a farewell to all of us,” one said. Twitter user commenting on the video.

The submarine, a Cakra-class model made in Germany in 1978 and delivered to Indonesia three years later, disappeared around 40 minutes after submerging at dawn last Wednesday during a military maneuver.

The KRI-Nanggala-402 was located on Sunday by a Singapore submarine participating in the search in a large device in which Australia, India and the United States were also involved.

Indonesian authorities rule out that the accident was caused by human error and suspect that it began to crack when it was between 400 and 500 meters below the surface.

In the aftermath of the tragedy, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said the state would award “higher promotions and honor” to the 53 soldiers killed for their “sacrifice and dedication.”

Authorities are currently working to recover the corpses of sailors from the KRI-Nanggala-402, which, although it was manufactured over 40 years ago, was refurbished in 2012 in South Korea.