This part of Jakarta is slowly sinking | ABC NEWS

Imagine being at home and water starts coming up from the floor... not from the street, but from beneath your house.

Ahead of Jakarta's 499th anniversary, ABC reporter Hellena Souisa visits a North Jakarta neighbourhood where residents keep raising their floors just to stay above a city that keeps sinking.

By Hellena Souisa for ABC Asia-Pacific. Video version by Raffa Athallah.

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