Six-year-old Anggi's father Suyatno clung to him for four days in a raft awaiting rescue, which came over a hundred miles from where an Indonesian ferry sank on December 31, sending more than six hundred passengers into the seas between Borneo and Java. The father and son were discovered with ten other survivors on an offshore oil rig, bringing the total number of survivors found so far to over two hundred. Anggi's 27-year-old mother, Jumiati, has yet to be found.
Fishing boats have rescued dozens of survivors, but ferry passengers who survived speak of rough seas, sweltering heat, and a lack of food and water in the rafts. The harsh storms in Indonesian waters may also have contributed to the disappearance of a jet plane on January 1, which included among its 102 passengers Americans Scott Jackson and his daughters Stephanie and Lindsey, both students at the University of Oregon.
The rescue efforts in the ferry disaster continue, as does the search for the missing plane, with military, government agency, and civilian crafts focusing on seeking survivors and dropping food and supplies to them in cases where the stormy seas are too rough to retrieve them--holding out hope that Anggi's cries of "Where is mother, where is mother?" will be answered, and that other mothers and fathers, daughters and sons will be saved.
