Rescuers searching for 140 people from Indonesia passenger ship, official says
Search efforts continue for 130 missing after ferry capsized in Java Sea due to bad weather; six confirmed dead, 107 rescued, officials report.
- On Sunday, September 13, 2026, the passenger ship Virgo Transport 8 capsized in the Java Sea while traveling from Surabaya to Banjarmasin, Transport Minister Dudy Purwagandhi confirmed.
- The captain reported the vessel was "tilting" after encountering rough seas with waves up to 3 meters before contact was lost early Sunday.
- More than 600 personnel from Basarnas and other agencies deployed 17 ships and aircraft, recovering six bodies and rescuing 107 passengers by Sunday afternoon while approximately 130 people remained missing.
- Distraught relatives gathered at Banjarmasin's Trisakti port command center, anxiously checking rescue lists as officials faced challenges verifying passenger counts due to manifest discrepancies.
- This incident follows three major Indonesian ferry emergencies since July, intensifying scrutiny of maritime safety in a nation relying on ferries across 17,000 islands where safety enforcement remains inconsistent.
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A large search and rescue device tries to locate more survivors of the ferry on which 243 people were travelling.
Indonesian rescuers race to find 128 people missing after ship capsizes
JAKARTA: Hundreds of Indonesian rescuers, police and specialized navy underwater teams were on Monday searching for 128 people still missing after a passenger ship capsized in the Java Sea over the weekend. The KM Virgo Transport 8 vessel with 243 people on board left Surabaya on the island of Java for Banjarmasin on Borneo island, some 490 km away, on Saturday. Early on Sunday, the ship’s captain informed its operator about the rough weather an…
The Indonesian emergency teams have located with the sunken deck and the hull floating the passenger ship whose shipwreck on Sunday morning leaves six dead, 129 missing and 108 rescued, according to the provisional balance published on Monday.Aerial images taken by the National Agency for Search and Rescue (Basarnas) show the boat, in which 243 people (213 passengers and 30 crew members were travelling), practically sunk with the waves hitting t…
Indonesia races to find 129 missing after Java Sea ferry capsizes
Indonesia intensified its search operation on 14 September for 129 people still missing after the Virgo Transport 8 ferry capsized in rough seas in the Java Sea the previous day. By then, 108 survivors had been rescued and six bodies recovered.
On the Java Sea the ship Virgo Transport 8 with 243 people on board got into severe storms. 130 people are still missing.
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