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- Rescuers search in rough seas for 43 missing after a ferry sank near Bali, Indonesia</p>
<p>July 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM</p>
<p>In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) rescuers search for victims after a ferry enroute for the resort island of Bali sank off Ketapang, East Java, Indonesia, early Thursday, July 3, 2025. (BASARNAS via AP) ()</p>
<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers were searching Thursday for 43 people missing in rough seas overnight after a ferry carrying 65 people sank near Indonesia's resort island of Bali.</p>
<p>The KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank almost half an hour after leaving East Java's Ketapang port late Wednesday, the National Search and Rescue Agency said in a statement. It was bound for Bali's Gilimanuk port, a 50-kilometer (30-mile) trip.</p>
<p>The ferry carried 53 passengers, 12 crew members and 22 vehicles, including 14 trucks, it said.</p>
<p>Two bodies have been recovered and 20 were rescued, many of them unconscious after drifting in choppy waters for hours, said Banyuwangi police chief Rama Samtama Putra.</p>
<p>Nine boats, including two tug boats and two inflatable boats have been searching for the missing people since Wednesday night, battling waves up to 2 meters (6.5 feet) high in the overnight darkness.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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