Priandana said that previously around 100 fishermen crowded the Selo Pengantin market during the fishing season, but the number of fishermen had declined significantly to only dozens these days.
The loss of livelihood has occurred slowly across the years. Fewer boats and fishermen remain in the villages. Salt farmers, who had experienced major loss of lands when the Cirebon plant was constructed on the salt farms in the bay, faced further declines in production due to La Nina weather phenomenon over three years.
The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has documented that about 3,
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