December 26, 2025 | 10:42 am
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Rows of water jugs lined the terrace of the Dukuh Timbulsloko prayer house in Timbulsloko village, Sayung subdistrict, Demak Regency, Central Java, on Wednesday morning, December 17, 2025. Their owners—several women—stood nearby, chatting as they waited their turn to fill them with clean water from the prayer house for daily needs.
One by one, they hurried off once the jugs were full. From the prayer house to their homes, the women did not set foot on land. They walked over seawater that has submerged the village for years. They were aided by a raised walkway built of wooden planks about a meter wide and stretching hundreds of meters.
Doah, 53, a local resident, described her daily routine of queuing for water at the prayer house. There, residents collectively harvest rainwater channeled through pipes into storage tanks. “You can only collect it once a day, and we chip in Rp2,000 (about US$0.12) per jug to buy water filters,” Doah said when met the same day.
Residents have struggled to access clean water since the land of Timbulsloko hamlet sank over the past decade. The entire settlement now lies below sea level. The only access to Timbulsloko is through another village, whose road has also subsided. Residents have repeatedly had to raise the roadbed, which can be used only by two-wheeled vehicles.
That two-meter-wide road is now flanked by pools of seawater. In addition, a raised walkway standing 2.3 meters high encircles the village. In fact, the wooden path has already been elevated by another meter as tidal flooding slowly eats away at the road surface. “Rob (tidal flooding) started appearing here around 2015, beginning periodic high tides before submerging rice fields and residential areas,” said Ashar, 45, a local community leader.
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