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25 missing after ferry sinks in Indonesia

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A terrible tragedy. Twenty-five souls on board lost to the sea. Words fail.

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Indonesian ferries are like floating coffins, their planes flying ones. Regulation has never been a strong point of Indonesian society apart from the strict military control over the emergence of democracy and freedom of speech, bad habits learned from their quondam masters from Europe and, more recently, their Far Eastern neighbors to the north.

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