Rescue boats picked up scores of exhausted survivors Sunday from an Indonesian ferry that sunk in the Java Sea, but they also recovered dozens of bodies and around 400 people remained missing. A fleet of navy ships, fishing vessels and aircraft has been scouring a large section of the central Indonesian coastline since the Senopati Nusantara capsized around midnight Friday after being pounded by heavy waves for 10 hours. By late afternoon Sunday, authorities had found 177 survivors, either clinging to pieces of wood, packed into life rafts or on beaches after swimming ashore, the state news agency Antara quoted a transport department official named Soeharto as saying. At least 66 bodies also had been found, said Soeharto, who goes by one name, like many Indonesians.
