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Indonesia rescuers searching for dozens of missing people after ferry
sinks near Bali
Story by the Associated Press
Updated:
10:26 PM EDT, Thu July 3, 2025
Source: AP
Indonesian rescuers were searching for 29 people who remained missing
Thursday after a ferry sank and six people died the previous night near
Indonesia’s resort island of Bali.
A 3-year-old boy and his mother were the most recent victims whose
bodies were recovered on Thursday afternoon. The six bodies located by
rescuers will be taken to their families in Banyuwangi, officials said.
As of Thursday, 30 people had been rescued from the ferry’s 53
passengers and 12 crew members, Mohammad Syafii, head of Indonesia’s
National Search and Rescue Agency, told Metro TV.
The KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank almost half an hour after leaving
Ketapang port in the East Java town of Banyuwangi late Wednesday for a
trip of about 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) to Bali’s Gilimanuk port,
authorities said.
A helicopter and 15 boats searched for survivors with assistance from
fishermen and people onshore. The overnight search operation focused on
the northern part of a travel lane for ships, but the water current
changed from midnight to morning and many victims were found in the
southern area, Syafii said.
“The condition of this ship is fully submerged, so there is a
possibility that there are people inside the ferry. But right now we
are focusing on the surface of the water first,” Surabaya Search and
Rescue head Nanang Sigit said.
Weather was a significant factor in the search effort. Strong waves up
to 2 meters (6.5 feet) high and darkness hampered emergency responders
overnight. While conditions improved Thursday morning, Indonesia’s
Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency indicated waves reached
up to 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) with strong currents and winds Thursday
afternoon.
“For today’s search we are focusing on searching on the water, as
the initial victims were found in the water between the location of the
accident toward Gilimanuk port,” Sigit said in a statement Thursday
morning.
An officer at the port witnessed the sinking before rescuers could be
alerted.
“The ferry could not be contacted via radio from the beginning. Then
it could be contacted by other ships from the same company. But the
ship was already in a tilting condition,” Sigit said.
Many of those rescued were unconscious after drifting in choppy waters
for hours, Banyuwangi Police Chief Rama Samtama Putra said.
Survivors were treated at Bali’s Jembrana Regional Hospital and the
port office in Gilimanuk. Some family members arrived at the port in a
panic or weeping as they sought information about their loved ones.
Indonesian authorities are investigating the cause of the accident.
Survivors told rescuers there appeared to be a leak in the engine room
of the ferry, which was carrying 22 vehicles including 14 trucks.
“When the ferry started to tilt, I initially intended to jump into
the sea, but the ship quickly sank, so I did not jump any more but sank
with the water entering the ship, maybe about 7 meters (23 feet) deep,
so I immediately climbed up to the top,” said Supardi, 64, a survivor
at the hospital.
He and three other people grouped together in the water and used life
jackets to say afloat, he said.
Ferry tragedies are common in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than
17,000 islands, where ferries are often used as transport and safety
regulations can lapse.
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