[traveltho]

Huhu Karin,

nicht schön zu lesen.
Zu dem Thema "fähren in id" hatte ich mich auch schon mal ausgelassen:
Have you ever been on an Indonesian public ferry that was not overcrowded? Surely we can squeeze another person on, or another 50. Or even another 500. It seems to me that the ferry operators don’t quite understand that if an overloaded public bus collapses under the weight of its passengers it sinks fifteen cm but that if a ferry from Bali to Lombok suffers the same fate it will sink fifteen million cm. Perhaps operators know the manufacturers put a bit of safety leeway into the advertised capacity so and they want to test exactly what the extent of that leeway is. They don’t seem to realize that there’s only one way to find out. Or maybe it is all about profit. If I take an extra person I’ll make another 3.000 Rupiah and if I take another 500 people I’ll make another 1.5 million Rupiah. Never mind that I’ll have to spend the earnings paying for a new boat after the first one ends up. I guess it’s all about fate again.

Thomas