A LIGHT! A Light! Surahmad screamed suddenly. The 15 people adrift in the middle of the sea rediscovered the will to live. They were survivors of the sinking of the ship MS Senopati Nusantara in the waters of Masalembo, East Java, on December 29. One of them was seriously injured with a deep gash to his leg.

Eight of the passengers in the rubber life raft came from Central Java. The remainder were from East Java and South Kalimantan. They had been