Deserted villages, power cuts: Java’s sinking coast hits residents hard, as Prabowo plans 700km sea wall

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Experts have raised concerns that it will take years before the sea wall can be ready, and that is if Indonesia manages to find the money to fund the megaproject. CENTRAL JAVA: Rasjoyo could only watch in silence as his small wooden boat sailed through Semonet, a sleepy fishing village in the northern coast of Java he once called home. The coast has receded about 1.5km inland in the last two decades , submerging 54 houses and hundreds of hectares of fish farms and rice fields. All of the land