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June 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda According to Indonesian and Australian authorities, so far more than half of those on-board have been rescued, while 17 bodies have been found and scores of others are still missing.
The overloaded boat sank some 109 nautical miles (202 kilometers) south of the Sunda Strait in Indonesia on Thursday for a reason still unknown.
Following the incident, The Associated Press quoted Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokeswoman Jo Meehan as saying that four Indonesian and Australian warships, five Australian government aircraft, and four merchant ships had joined the search operation on Friday.
This comes while hundreds of protesters have staged a rally outside the Sydney Town Hall to voice their support for the rights of asylum seekers.
“I do not think the Australian public wants these things to happen. It is just ignorance mostly about what is going on. We trust our government to do what is best by people indeed and the fact that they are nothing surprising to most of us, I think, when we find out,” an Australian refugee advocate told Press TV.
Indonesia suffers from a weak and unsafe naval transportation network, though, its 240-million-strong population is heavily dependent on the means of travel.
Sea accidents are common in the country, the world’s largest archipelago with more than 17,000 islands.
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