Survivors from an asylum-seeker boat that sank off Indonesia on Wednesday are pleading to be taken to Australia.
Fifty five people have been handed over to Indonesian immigration officials and a search for nearly 100 others has been called off.
The survivors, who say they are fleeing persecution in Afghanistan, paid about $A5000 each to make the voyage.
The boat, which sank in the Sunda Strait off the island of Java on 29 August, was the fourth known to have sunk on that route to Christmas Island in recent years.
