"5th June 2021"

#8194518

8 May 2022

A batik craftsman prepares a cloth before press a copper stamp called a "cap" as his make traditional Javanese textile called batik at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. Pekalongan is a city known for batik, a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings, usually on fabric. This textile has traditionally been crafted by hand in family workshops and small-scale cottage industries. Today, young Pekalongan residents are increasingly confident that they can aspire to reputable work and a reasonable income without having to join the migration to Indonesia’s larger cities.

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#8194520

8 May 2022

A woman carries a girl in her arms as she passes a batik production traditional Javanese textile called batik at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. Pekalongan is a city known for batik, a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings, usually on fabric. This textile has traditionally been crafted by hand in family workshops and small-scale cottage industries. Today, young Pekalongan residents are increasingly confident that they can aspire to reputable work and a reasonable income without having to join the migration to Indonesia’s larger cities.

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#8194522

8 May 2022

A batik craftswoman applies melted wax using a spouted tool called a canting as make traditional Javanese textile called batik at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. Pekalongan is a city known for batik, a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings, usually on fabric. This textile has traditionally been crafted by hand in family workshops and small-scale cottage industries. Today, young Pekalongan residents are increasingly confident that they can aspire to reputable work and a reasonable income without having to join the migration to Indonesia’s larger cities.

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#8194524

8 May 2022

Workers dry batik after dyeing process as they make traditional Javanese textile called batik at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. Pekalongan is a city known for batik, a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings, usually on fabric. This textile has traditionally been crafted by hand in family workshops and small-scale cottage industries. Today, young Pekalongan residents are increasingly confident that they can aspire to reputable work and a reasonable income without having to join the migration to Indonesia’s larger cities.

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#8194526

8 May 2022

Workers sew batik clothing products traditional Javanese textile called batik at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. Pekalongan is a city known for batik, a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings, usually on fabric. This textile has traditionally been crafted by hand in family workshops and small-scale cottage industries. Today, young Pekalongan residents are increasingly confident that they can aspire to reputable work and a reasonable income without having to join the migration to Indonesia’s larger cities.

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#8194528

8 May 2022

A home surrounded by rising sea levels is seen at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. They hangs and washes at a polluted river for process traditional Javanese textile called Batik. Batik is a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings on fabric. At the heart of the problem is Pekalongan’s overreliance on groundwater, groundwater is also essential to the city’s thriving batik industry. The over-extraction of groundwater has caused the city to sink at a rate of between 10cm to 15cm per year.

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#8194534

8 May 2022

Workers making batik cloth pattern with a wax-resist cloth dyeing technique onto traditional Javanese textile called batik at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. Pekalongan is a city known for batik, a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings, usually on fabric. This textile has traditionally been crafted by hand in family workshops and small-scale cottage industries. Today, young Pekalongan residents are increasingly confident that they can aspire to reputable work and a reasonable income without having to join the migration to Indonesia’s larger cities.

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#8194542

8 May 2022

A man washes batik cloth at a polluted river in Pekalongan slum, Central Java, Indonesia, on June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. They hangs and washes at a polluted river for process traditional Javanese textile called Batik. Batik is a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings on fabric. At the heart of the problem is Pekalongan’s overreliance on groundwater, groundwater is also essential to the city’s thriving batik industry. The over-extraction of groundwater has caused the city to sink at a rate of between 10cm to 15cm per year.

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#8194544

8 May 2022

A man washes batik cloth at a polluted river in Pekalongan slum, Central Java, Indonesia, on June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. They hangs and washes at a polluted river for process traditional Javanese textile called Batik. Batik is a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings on fabric. At the heart of the problem is Pekalongan’s overreliance on groundwater, groundwater is also essential to the city’s thriving batik industry. The over-extraction of groundwater has caused the city to sink at a rate of between 10cm to 15cm per year.

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#8194546

8 May 2022

A worker dries batik after dyeing process as they make traditional Javanese textile called batik at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. Pekalongan is a city known for batik, a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings, usually on fabric. This textile has traditionally been crafted by hand in family workshops and small-scale cottage industries. Today, young Pekalongan residents are increasingly confident that they can aspire to reputable work and a reasonable income without having to join the migration to Indonesia’s larger cities.

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#8194548

8 May 2022

A worker dries batik after dyeing process as they make traditional Javanese textile called batik at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. Pekalongan is a city known for batik, a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings, usually on fabric. This textile has traditionally been crafted by hand in family workshops and small-scale cottage industries. Today, young Pekalongan residents are increasingly confident that they can aspire to reputable work and a reasonable income without having to join the migration to Indonesia’s larger cities.

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#8194550

8 May 2022

A batik craftsman prepares a cloth before press a copper stamp called a "cap" as his make traditional Javanese textile called batik at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. Pekalongan is a city known for batik, a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings, usually on fabric. This textile has traditionally been crafted by hand in family workshops and small-scale cottage industries. Today, young Pekalongan residents are increasingly confident that they can aspire to reputable work and a reasonable income without having to join the migration to Indonesia’s larger cities.

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#8194552

8 May 2022

A worker uses copper stamps to imprint patterns onto traditional Javanese textile called batik at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. Pekalongan is a city known for batik, a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings, usually on fabric. This textile has traditionally been crafted by hand in family workshops and small-scale cottage industries. Today, young Pekalongan residents are increasingly confident that they can aspire to reputable work and a reasonable income without having to join the migration to Indonesia’s larger cities.

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#8194554

8 May 2022

Workers dry batik after dyeing process as they make traditional Javanese textile called batik at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. Pekalongan is a city known for batik, a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings, usually on fabric. This textile has traditionally been crafted by hand in family workshops and small-scale cottage industries. Today, young Pekalongan residents are increasingly confident that they can aspire to reputable work and a reasonable income without having to join the migration to Indonesia’s larger cities.

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#8194556

8 May 2022

Workers sew batik clothing products traditional Javanese textile called batik at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. Pekalongan is a city known for batik, a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings, usually on fabric. This textile has traditionally been crafted by hand in family workshops and small-scale cottage industries. Today, young Pekalongan residents are increasingly confident that they can aspire to reputable work and a reasonable income without having to join the migration to Indonesia’s larger cities.

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#8194558

8 May 2022

Workers making batik cloth pattern with a wax-resist cloth dyeing technique onto traditional Javanese textile called batik at low-lying Jeruk Sari neighborhood in coastal Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, June 5, 2021. An area in which almost every available space is used for batik production, with a high level of poverty, vulnerable to both rising sea levels and high river peak flows. Pekalongan is a city known for batik, a traditional Indonesian method of using wax to resist water-based dyes to depict patterns and drawings, usually on fabric. This textile has traditionally been crafted by hand in family workshops and small-scale cottage industries. Today, young Pekalongan residents are increasingly confident that they can aspire to reputable work and a reasonable income without having to join the migration to Indonesia’s larger cities.

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