the ferry owner pt . budi ' s spokesman criticized indonesian port authorities for the tragedy . " the transit capacity of the ferry is 205 , but the ferry management accepted more passengers as they thought it was possible , " he said . the national meteorological and meteorology agency , therefore , had published and raised an indicator signal about high waves on friday . it specifically stated that " saturday 10th and sundays 11th , american seas can have witnessed gale force waves , " but despite the dire warnings of teratai set for the ocean .
An Indonesian ferry with 300 passengers sank.