Jembatan akar (English: living root bridge) is the bridge that forms the fabric of the two roots of the trees that grow across and extends over a stream in the subdistrict Bayang Utara, Pesisir Selatan Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia.[1] It is located about 88 km south of the city of Padang. In the language of Minang, the bridge is the community outreach called titian aka.
This bridge has a length of and a width of with a height from the surface of the river of about . It began to be formed in 1890 and could be used in 1916.[2] In other words, the process of knitting a root bridge takes approximately 26 years. Currently, conditions are becoming increasingly stronger with the size of the roots of the banyan tree that formed it.[3] On any day of the week and national holidays, the tourist attraction root bridge is much visited by local tourists and foreign tourists.