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Australian police said a military aircraft saw some 40 people standing on the upturned hull of the boat.
“We know from what we have been hearing from the aircraft there are not 200 life jackets on board,” Western Australian police commissioner Karl O’Callaghan told local television.
He said at least 75 people were feared to have drowned.
An Australian customs spokesman said border protection had detected what was believed to be a people-smuggling boat in distress earlier on Thursday.
“Indonesian navy ships are on their way there now,” Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) spokesman Gagah Prakoso said.
The sinking occurred within Indonesia’s search and rescue zone and Australian authorities were offering assistance, Australia’s Maritime Safety Authority said.
Refugees seeking asylum in Australia often set sail from Indonesia heading for Christmas Island in dangerous and overcrowded boats.
As many as 200 died when an overcrowded boat sank off the coast of East Java in December, 2011.
Fifty asylum seekers travelling from Indonesia to Christmas Island died when a storm dashed their boat onto rocks in December 2010.
Australia’s Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island, south of Indonesia, is a popular destination for asylum seekers, who travel by often crowded boats from Indonesia, with the help of people smugglers.
So far this year, more than 50 boats carrying more than 4,000 asylum seekers have been detected by Australian authorities.
In 2001, a crowded boat known as the SIEV X sank on its way to Australia with the loss of 350 lives.
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