Indonesia’s Most Populated Island Is Slowly Sinking | The Longest Day

Pasijah and her family have lived on Indonesia’s most populated island, Java, for over 20 years. They are in one of the worst hit villages on the country’s 80,000 kilometer long coastline. Rising sea levels and land subsidence have forced 500 families to relocate inland in search of higher ground. Only three families remain. Twenty years ago, the family’s home was sat over five kilometers from the shoreline, and surrounded by agricultural land and neighbors. Now, it is being swallowed by the sea in what was once a prosperous and fertile agrarian region, a land mass equivalent to over a thousand Indonesian Farms has disappeared. Subscribe to Earth Stories to watch more documentaries: These are the stories of people living on the front lines of climate change. Communities across Asia are constantly fighting a daily battle where intense heat waves are killing thousands and prolonged droughts are destroying livelihoods. Mega cities have run out of water, while people