More than 200 people have stayed in one of Indonesia’s fastest sinking areas, which has turned from a landscape of lush rice paddies into a network of boardwalks and canoes.
That is just one of many landmarks in the Javan coastal village of Timbulsloko swallowed by rising tides, which have forced residents to adapt to a new life on the water.
The coastline has also been left vulnerable to floods after locals cut down mangroves for fishing ponds in the 1990s. Sulkan was forced to move his kindergarten from an old wooden building next to his house to another structure on higher land to prevent it from being lost. He says his floor can still be submerged in water during high tides, leaving him worried high waves could collapse his home.
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