Indonesian rescuers launched a search operation Sunday after a passenger ship carrying 240 people lost contact in the Java Sea while traveling from East Java to South Kalimantan on Borneo island, offi...

Indonesian authorities intensified on Monday a search for dozens of people missing after a ferry overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea previous day.

I Putu Sudayana, the head of the agency's Banjarmasin office, said in a video statement that evacuees had been transported using different ships and some of them would be taken to an East Java port.