More than 200 people have stayed in one of Indonesia's fastest sinking areas, which has turned from a landscape of rice paddies into a network of boardwalks and canoes.
INDONESIAN teacher Sulkan leafs through pictures at his small sea-surrounded mosque, remembering a marching band and smiling children who graduated from his kindergarten, standing on a road now submerged by murky, green 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. Sularso, 54, said he had raised his floor three times since 2018, by a total of 1.5 metres, spending around 22 million rupiah ."This village... will be gone in less than five years. We can't build, we can't do anything."
"Life is harder now. Whenever the water comes inside my house, I always wish I could move out," she said.The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says an increase of two degrees Celsius from pre-industrial times could raise sea levels by 43 centimetres by the next century. Timbulsloko's younger generation often spend their time outside their home, escaping the floods that haunt their everyday lives.
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