PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> A search is underway for about 300 illegal migrants missing after their boat sank off the coast of Indonesia.<br/> Another 76 have been rescued.<br/> Police say they were in the water for hours before their plight was spotted.<br/> SOUNDBITE: Trenggalek police chief Totok Suharyanto saying (Bahasa Indonesia):<br/> "The boat was overturned by huge waves and the passengers were in the sea for more than six hours. Fishermen helped them. The first 33 were brought here."<br/> The survivors found so far are recovering at a clinic on the southern coast of Java.<br/> The sinking is the latest in a series of similar disasters in recent years.<br/> Many migrants use Indonesia as a transit point on the way to Australia.<br/> Asylum seekers often pay thousands of dollars to make the treacherous journey across the Indian Ocean.<br/> The trips are organised by people-smuggling networks based in Indonesia using poorly equipped, ramshackle boats to make the dangerous crossing.<br/> Paul Chapman, Reuters
