Indonesia resumes search for 30 missing ferry passengers
The ferry, KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya, was carrying 65 Indonesians when it sank about 30 minutes after setting sail from East Java, bound for the holiday island of Bali on Wednesday night, said search and rescue agency official Ribut Eko Suyatno.
Twenty-nine survivors were rescued on Thursday before the search was called off due to poor visibility.
Dayu Made Silawati, 55, said her husband, Dewa Gede Adyana Putra Usia, was travelling on the ferry to pick up supplies in Bali for his job as a truck driver.
Waiting for news at a rescue centre in Bali, she said the last time she spoke to him was on Wednesday night.
"I just got on the ship," she recalled him saying. "I said to him, 'Be careful, dear.'"
At 4am on Thursday, Silawati said she called him again and again. There was no answer.
Rescue operations resumed on Friday in the waters of the Bali Strait, involving ships, helicopters and hundreds of rescuers, Eko said. Strong currents and rain were expected.
Transportation safety investigators would probe the cause of the sinking when the search was over, officials said. The ferry was not overloaded when it went down, officials said on Thursday.
Ferries are a common mode of transportation in Indonesia, a nation of over 17,000 islands, and lax safety standards often allow vessels to be overcrowded with inadequate life-saving equipment.
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