Pasijah, a 55 -year -old housewife in the central province of Java in Indonesia, wakes up every morning to the sound of the sea. If that sounds idyllic, it’s anything but.
His home is the only one that goes back in this part of Rejosari Senik, a small town on the northern coast of Java that was once on dry land but is now submerged in the water.
Around the last years, Pasijah’s neighbors have abandoned their homes, sudden vegetables and rice fields to the advanced sea, but she and her family have no plans to leave.
“I have all the intention of staying here and my feelings for this house remain,” he said.
Water flies around the walls of Pasijah’s house, where he has lived for 35 years, soaking when he leaves.
The closest land is two kilometers (1.24 miles) away, and the closest city, Demak, is even more at 19 kilometers (11.8 miles). The only way to get there is in boat.
Indonesia, an archipelago or thousands of islands, has around 81,000 kilometers or coasts, which makes it particularly vulnerable to the increase in seas and erosion.
Sea levels on the country’s coast increased an average of 4.25 millimeters (0.16 inches) annually from 1992 to 2024, but the rate has accelerated in recent years, agreeing to Cadarsah, a climate change and the meteorology of Geponesia.
“One of the signs of climate change is the growing level of the sea,” said some small islands had disappeared.
Kadarsah also pointed out the increase in groundwater pumping that has exacerbated the sinking of the Earth along the north coast of Java. The problem is particularly Bath in Yakarta, the capital of Indonesia, which houses about 10 million people.
Mega Projects
Indonesian authorities have resorted to megaprojects for a solution, including a 700 -kilometer marine wall (434 miles) that would run the north coast between Bantenn and the provinces of Eastern Java.
Pasijah and Re -Family, meanwhile, have resorted to nature.
She has planted around 15,000 mangroves a year in the last 20 years.
Every day, it is removed in a boat made of a blue plastic barrel to serve the bushes and plant new saber, picking up in the blue gray water, which can be as high as its chest.
“Floods come in waves, gradually, not all at once,” said Pasijah. “I realized that after the waters, I needed to plant sleeves so that they could extend and protect the house of the wind and the waves.”
She and Re -Family survive selling fish trapped by their children in the nearest market. They say they will remain all the time that the tides can contain.
“I am no longer a group about how I feel the isolation here since since then I decided to stay, so we will take an obstacle at the same time,” said Pasijah.