INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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Intan Syari says she's fulfilling her partner's last wish
alone.Intan Syari and Rio Nanda Pratama were due to get married on 11 November
But Mr Pratama died as he was coming home for the wedding, when Lion Air flight JT 610 crashed on 29 October shortly after taking off from
Ms Sayari said she wanted to fulfil his last wish, and posed for photos wearing her white gown and wedding ring
"Even though I feel grief that I cannot describe, I still have to smile for you," the young woman wrote on Instagram
"I cannot be sad but should be strong like you always told me to be." She said that before he'd left for the flight, Mr Pratama had joked
that should he not return in time she should take the pictures and send them to him.The plane was carrying 189 people from Jakarta to
Pangkal Pinang; there were no survivors of the crash and the fuselage of the Boeing 737 has not been found yet.Image
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The couple had chosen the gown together
In earlier posts on
the pictures also posted some of them online, explaining the story behind them.The couple had known each other since middle school, she
writes, and explained how they had decided on the clothes for the wedding and the photo shoot just a few weeks before the crash
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Rio Nanda Pratama and Intan Syari had known each other for 13
years
"If I don't return by 11 November, you should still wear your wedding gown that I chose for you," the photographer
cites him on her Instagram account
"Wear beautiful make-up, ask for a white roses
Take good photos and send them to me."On his way back to their home town of Pangkal Pinang for the wedding, he took the ill-fated flight,
which crashed soon after taking off.There is as yet no indication of what caused the crash but the plane had experienced technical problems
related to airspeed and altitude readings on the previous flight.One of the black box recorders from the flight has been retrieved since but
authorities say it could take months to analyse the data from it
