JAKARTA
\nTwenty-six people were missing after a ferry ran out of fuel and sank in bad weather off the coast of Indonesia on Saturday, officials told.
\nThe vessel was carrying 43 people, the country\u2019s search and rescue agency said, when it capsized on Thursday in the Makassar Strait, the sea separating the islands of Sulawesi and Borneo.
\nNews of the accident only reached officials on Saturday, the local head of search and rescue Djuanidi, who like many Indonesians goes by only one name, AFP told.
\n\u201cSeventeen people have been rescued alive by two tugboats,\u201d he said, \u201cthat were passing by. We have deployed a rescue team to search for the missing others.\u201d
\nA group of 40 rescuers were at sea searching for survivors, Djuanidi added.
\nMarine accidents are common in Indonesia, a Southeast Asian archipelago of around 17,000 islands where safety standards are often lax.
\nLast week a ferry carrying more than 800 people ran aground in shallow waters off East Nusa Tenggara province and remained stuck for two days before being dislodged. No one was hurt.
\nIn 2018 more than 150 people drowned when a ferry sank in one of the world\u2019s deepest lakes on Sumatra island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
JAKARTA Twenty-six people were missing after a ferry ran out of fuel and sank in bad weather off the coast of Indonesia on Saturday, officials told. The vessel was carrying 43 people, the country\u2019s search and rescue agency said, when it capsized on Thursday in the Makassar Strait, the sea separating the islands of Sulawesi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7893,617,7892],"class_list":{"0":"post-263325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-ferry-sinks","9":"tag-indonesia","10":"tag-people-missing"},"yoast_head":"\n