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- Four dead and dozens missing after ferry sinks off Bali</p>
<p>Our Foreign StaffJuly 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM</p>
<p>Relatives wait for news from the search at Ketapang Port in Banyuwangi, East Java - Getty Images</p>
<p>At least four people have died and 23 have been rescued after a ferry carrying 65 people sank on its way to Bali.</p>
<p>Indonesian rescuers were racing on Thursday to find dozens of people who were still missing after the vessel sank on Wednesday night in the Bali Strait.</p>
<p>KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank about 25 minutes after weighing anchor as it left Indonesia's main island of Java.</p>
<p>"The ferry's manifest data totalled 53 passengers and 12 passenger crews," Indonesia's Surabaya search and rescue agency said.</p>
<p>Rescuers were earlier looking for 61 people in the water.</p>
<p>The rescue agency said a team with inflatable boats was dispatched immediately and a larger vessel was later sent from Surabaya to assist the search efforts.</p>
<p>President Prabowo Subianto, who was on a trip to Saudi Arabia, ordered an immediate emergency response. Cabinet secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya said the cause of the accident was "bad weather".</p>
<p>Search teams say that dozens of people are still unaccounted for - EPA</p>
<p>Some survivors saved themselves by using the ferry's lifeboat and were found in the water early on Thursday morning.</p>
<p>It is understood that the ferry was also transporting 22 vehicles, including 14 trucks.</p>
<p>Rescuers said they were still assessing if there were more people onboard than the ferry's manifest showed.</p>
<p>It is common in Indonesia for the actual number of passengers on a boat to differ from the manifest.</p>
<p>The ferry from Java to Bali takes about one hour and is often used by people crossing between the islands by car.</p>
<p>It is not known precisely how many people were onboard - GETTY IMAGES</p>
<p>It was unclear if any foreigners were onboard when the ferry sank.</p>
<p>Marine accidents are a regular occurrence in Indonesia, a Southeast Asian archipelago of around 17,000 islands, in part due to lax safety standards and sometimes due to bad weather.</p>
<p>In March, a boat carrying 16 people capsized in rough waters off Bali, killing an Australian woman and injuring at least one other person.</p>
<p>A ferry carrying more than 800 people ran aground in shallow waters off East Nusa Tenggara province in 2022 and remained stuck for two days before being dislodged with no one hurt.</p>
<p>And in 2018, more than 150 people drowned when a ferry sank in one of the world's deepest lakes on Sumatra island.</p>
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