{"id":61237,"date":"2026-09-13T04:40:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=61237"},"modified":"2026-09-13T04:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:44:14","slug":"indonesian-ferry-carrying-243-people-reported-missing-in-java-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=61237","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian ferry carrying 243 people reported missing in Java Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A search and rescue operation has been launched after contact was lost with an Indonesian passenger ferry carrying 243 people, the nation&#8217;s search and rescue agency says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Virgo Transport 8 ship was travelling from Surabaya to the south Kalimantan city of Banjarmasin overnight when it reported that it had encountered bad weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;At the time of this statement, the ship cannot be contacted and its whereabouts are unknown,&#8221; the agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities said it would take about five hours for a six-person rescue team to reach the ship&#8217;s last know position. It was last reported to be in the Java Sea about 150km south of Banjarmasin around 02:00 local time on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: A search and rescue operation has been launched after contact was lost with an Indonesian passenger ferry carrying 243 people, the nation&#8217;s search and rescue agency says. The Virgo Transport 8 ship was travelling from Surabaya to the south Kalimantan city of Banjarmasin overnight when it reported that it had encountered bad weather. &#8220;At the time of this statement, the ship cannot be contacted and its whereabouts are unknown,&#8221; the agency said. Authorities said it would take about five hours for a six-person rescue team to reach the ship&#8217;s last know position. It was last reported to be in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61239,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61237\/revisions\/61239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}