Fourteen people from a ferry that sank in Indonesia were picked up by a passing cargo ship after spending nine days on a life raft, a rescue official said today.

Twelve people on board a ferry that sank in Indonesia’s Java Sea were found alive today after clambering on to an unmanned offshore oil rig.

Bad weather prevented search aircraft from looking for more survivors today from an Indonesian ferry that sank in stormy weather.

RESCUE boats have picked up scores of exhausted survivors from an Indonesian ferry that sank in the Java Sea, but they also recovered dozens of bodies and around 400 people remain missing.