ONE asylum seeker boat is feared to have sunk on its way to Australia while another has been detained by the Indonesian navy after running aground near Sulawesi.
Indonesian search and rescue authorities are trying to locate where a boat carrying about 70 asylum seekers reportedly sank in the Sunda Strait at about midnight (3am AEST).
The Indonesian national search and rescue agency, BASARNAS, confirmed on Friday there were reports some people had been rescued by a fishing boat.
"We received information from Australia from AMSA that around 12am a ship carrying immigrants has sunk in south of Sunda Strait. It's said that it carried around 73 people," a BASARNAS spokesman told AAP.
He said BASARNAS was trying to find the exact location after being informed of the possible sinking on Friday morning by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).
"We don't have the co-ordinates for the area where we could search," a Jakarta search and rescue officer told AAP.
"We only received information from BASARNAS that it's in south of Sunda Strait and they've been rescued by local fishermen. But where is it? We're now contacting local ports and others if they have such information."
But an Indonesian navy patrol was able to pick up and detain 82 asylum seekers including scores of Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar when their boat ran aground as they headed to Australia from southwest Sulawesi, an immigration official said on Friday.
The 51 Rohingya, 24 Iranians and seven Somalis had been heading from Sulawesi island, in the east of the country, to East Nusa Tenggara, one of the closest Indonesian provinces to Australia, he said.
"They were heading to Australia, as usual," immigration official Muhammad Bakri told Agence France Presse.
The migrants, including several children, were taken to the nearby city of Makassar where they were being registered and questioned by immigration officials.
Meanwhile, the Australian Federal Police on Friday said it played a key role in the Pakistani police bust of a people-smuggling syndicate responsible for an asylum-seeker boat which sank leaving 94 people dead.
The Pakistani Federal Investigations Agency (PFIA) arrested four key syndicate members involved in the first boat sinking last year, an AFP spokesman said on Friday.
The AFP helped the PFIA and the Indonesian National Police identify the organisers and facilitators responsible for that vessel.
The first boat, carrying 152 ethnic Hazara asylum seekers, left Indonesia for Australia in June 2012 and sank south of Java, killing 94 people.
The syndicate apparently sent asylum seekers on valid visas to Malaysia, from where they travelled to Indonesia to board boats for Australia.
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