the ferry owner pt bn agus ' s spokesman thanked indonesian port authorities for the tragedy . " the passenger capacity of the vehicle is 205 people but the port official accepted more people as they suspected it was possible , " he says . the national meteorological and geophysics agency , itself , had published and raised an alert warning about high waves on monday . it explicitly stated that " saturday 10th and sunday 11th , indonesian sea can have encountered tornado action waves , " but despite the dire warnings which teratai set for the seas .
An Indonesian ferry with 300 passengers sank.