the ferry owner pt nur santoso ' s spokesman blamed local sea officials for the tragedy . " the seat capacity of the ferry is 205 people but the starboard administrator accepted more visitors as they thought it was necessary , " he said . the japanese meteorological and geophysics office , however , had published and raises an alert signal about high tides on friday . it specifically stated that " weekend 10th and monday 11th , indonesian waters would have witnessed gale pressure floods , " but despite the dire warn km teratai set for the seas .
An Indonesian ferry with 300 passengers sank.