2 Warga Asing Masih Hilang dari Kapal Pesiar yang Tenggelam
2 Foreigners Still Missing in Indonesia Sinking
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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TIM penyelamat pada Senin berhasil menyelamatkan 13 korban dari kapal pesiar yang tenggelam setelah menabrak karang di Perairan Sape, Kabupaten Bima, Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB), Minggu (17/8). Namun penyelamat masih mencari seorang pria Belanda dan seorang perempuan Italia yang masih hilang, kata para pejabat.
Kapal pesiar itu tenggelam Sabtu malam dalam perjalanan dari pulau Lombok ke pulau Komodo membawa 20 turis asing, empat awak Indonesia dan pemandu wisata. Sepuluh orang - semua orang asing - berhasil diselamatkan, Minggu, seperti dilansir MailOnline.
Lebih delapan wisatawan asing dan lima warga Indonesia ditemukan Senin pagi, kata Lalu Wahyu Efendi, kepala operasional Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB) di Mataram, NTB.
Dia menambahkan 13 penumpang berhasil diselamatkan oleh nelayan sekitar 43 kilometer arah timur dari lokasi tenggelamnya kapal pesiar lepas pantai Sangeang Api, sebuah pulau vulkanik di Kabupaten Bima, di timur pulau Sumbawa.
Sebagian besar korban yang selamat mengalami luka ringan, kata Efendi, tim penyelamat masih menjelajahi perairan untuk mencari dua wisatawan asing yang hilang.
Seorang wanita yang diselamatkan Minggu mengatakan kepada MetroTV bahwa ia dan yang lain berenang selama berjam-jam sebelum ditemukan.
"Itu adalah pengalaman yang mengerikan. Kami berenang di perairan berombak selama tujuh jam sebelum ditemukan oleh seorang nelayan," kata wanita, yang diidentifikasi hanya sebagai Maria.
Penumpang yang diselamatkan termasuk lima warga Belanda, empat Jerman, tiga Italia, masing-masing dua dari Spanyol dan Selandia Baru, dan masing-masing seorang dari Prancis dan Inggris, kata Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, juru bicara BNPB Indonesia.
Kapal pesiar dihantam gelombang setinggi tiga meter di tengah cuaca buruk dan kemudian menabrak karang, menyebabkan kapal pesiar bocor dan tenggelam, kata Nugroho.
Para wisatawan memulai wisata pada Kamis yang membawa mereka dari Bali ke Pulau Komodo, dan singgah di Lombok. Perjalanan kapal pesiar dari Lombok ke Komodo memakan waktu hingga 15 jam.
RESCUERS on Monday safely recovered 13 more people from a tourist boat that sank after hitting a reef in central Indonesia, but were searching for a Dutch man and an Italian woman who were still missing, officials said.
The boat sank Saturday evening on its way from Lombok island to Komodo island carrying 20 foreign tourists, four Indonesian crewmen and an Indonesian guide. Ten people — all foreigners — were rescued Sunday.
Eight more foreign tourists and all five Indonesians were found early Monday, said Lalu Wahyu Efendi, operational chief for the search and rescue agency in Mataram, the provincial capital of West Nusatenggara.
He said the 13 were rescued by fishermen about 43 kilometers (27 miles) east of where their wooden boat sank off Sangeang Api, a volcanic island in Bima district off the eastern coast of Sumabwa island.
Most of those who were rescued had minor injuries, said Efendi, adding that rescuers were still scouring the waters for the two missing foreigners.
A woman who was rescued Sunday told MetroTV that she and the others swam for hours before being found.
"It was a terrible experience. We swam in choppy waters for seven hours before being found by a fisherman," said the woman, identified only as Maria.
The rescued foreigners included five Dutch, four Germans, three Italians, two each from Spain and New Zealand, and one each from France and Britain, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for Indonesia's disaster management agency.
The boat was hit by a 3-meter-high (10-foot-high) wave in bad weather and crashed into a reef, causing it to leak and sink, Nugroho said.
The tourists had embarked Thursday on a tour taking them from the resort island of Bali to Komodo island, including a stop on Lombok. A boat trip from Lombok to Komodo can take up to 15 hours.
Komodo is part of the Lesser Sunda chain of islands and forms part of Komodo National Park, which is known for endangered Komodo dragons that can grow longer than 3 meters (10 feet).
Boat accidents are common in Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago nation of more than 17,000 islands, in part because of poor safety standards.
