WOODEN BOARDWALK PLANK | INDONESIA

ANGEL GRACIA

In the Indonesian village of Timbulsloko residents are fighting a constant battle to keep their homes above water as climate change causes the land to sink into the sea.

Members of the Timbulsloko community are used to living by the water. But over recent years, climate change has altered their daily lives dramatically.

Now residents raise their foundations or their floors to keep the rising sea from washing away their precarious homes. At the same time, while surrounded by water, accessing clean drinking water has become much more difficult.

Angel is fighting back by educating Indonesia’s youth about the threat climate change poses to them and helping them come together to demand climate justice for her community and the thousands like it across the Indonesian archipelago.

Object of Memory

Timbulsloko is perched above the rising sea waters on stilts. With no
roads, squares or even streets, the only way to navigate this floating village is via the narrow wooden boardwalks that are the arteries of this community.

The boardwalks are made of thousands of small planks of wood barely wide
enough for one person to walk on. With the sea beneath your feet and all around you get a sense of how vulnerable so many communities are to the slow but destructive impacts of the climate crisis.