(6 Jan 2015) 12 Muslim clerics left on Tuesday for the crash site of AirAsia Flight 8501 to pray for the 162 victims who died in the accident and for success in the search operation.
Bad weather has so far made it difficult to locate parts of the plane and recover the 125 bodies that are still missing.
Meanwhile at a news conference in Jakarta, the head of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency announced that the search area has been expanded as of Tuesday
Thanks to improved weather conditions and visibility in the Java Sea, divers were able to resume efforts to reach the wreckage of the plane.
On Monday, they were forced to return to their ships by strong currents and rough seas.
The debris found so far indicates the plane's fuselage broke into parts, officials said.
In Surabaya, where the ill-fated AirAsia flight departed on 28 December, a team of doctors from the United Arab Emirates and Malaysia arrived on Tuesday morning to help with the identification of the crash victims.
They joined Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) teams from Indonesia, Australia and Singapore, who have been working for the past few days.
So far, up to 13 of the 37 recovered bodies have been formally identified.

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