Independent Photographer
Living alongside nature is not just about enjoying its beauty, but also about embracing its risks with sensitivity and patience. For jellyfish fishermen along the coast of Kampak, Sebubus Village, Sambas Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, climate change is not a distant global issue it arrives in the form of sudden dark skies, raging waves, and murky sea waters. Amid this uncertainty, Mat Bon, once a jellyfish porter, now pins his hopes on a small processing plant he built with great effort. The seasonal arrival of jellyfish brings not only economic opportunity, but also a fragile hopeone that depends entirely on nature’s favor. Mat Bon’s journey is a story of resilience shared by the coastal people of Paloh, whose lives flow with the rhythm of nature, gambling with a sea that cannot be tamed. At the border of Borneo’s tail, economy and ecology sway delicately with every gust of wind and turn of the tide.