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Indonesia Extends a Search for Eight in the Sunda Strait

TL;DR

Malay Mail files an extended search for eight missing after a speedboat vanished near Anak Krakatau. Eight missing is not a closed toll. Do not merge Virgo.

MSM Perspective

Malay Mail files eight, including five journalists. Tempo files the same Sunda search. A body on Enggano is not eight.

X Perspective

Local feeds treat an extended search as a closed count.

Indonesia extended the search for eight people, including five journalists, after a speedboat disappeared in the Sunda Strait on a reporting run toward Anak Krakatau. [1] Malay Mail filed the extension. [1] Tempo filed the same search. [2] Sunday this paper printed Virgo Transport 8 in the Java Sea. Monday is a different boat, a different strait, and a different count. Print eight missing. Do not merge them.

Police awaited tests to identify a body found on Enggano Island. [1] A test is not an identified toll. A body is not eight. An extended search is not a rescue. It is also not a closed inquiry. Print eight. Print the search.

Print eight missing. Monday is not a closed Sunda toll. Five journalists in the eight is a press-freedom sentence, not a motive. Print eight as Monday's named Sunda hold. Virgo's 140 remain Sunday's Java Sea. Print eight as still not Virgo. Print the extension as still a search. Print eight as still the only honest Monday word.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing

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