A woman was miraculously found alive five nights after she disappeared in a crocodile-infested river in Indonesia.

Rahmayani, 32, reportedly ignored villagers' warnings before washing her motorcycle in a stretch of water inhabited by crocs in Bengkulu.

Despite the clear danger, she parked her two-wheeler along the riverbank and doused it with water she had scooped up from the shore on April 5.

However, Rahmayani was later reported missing when her worried family said she failed to return home later in the evening.

Village officials rushed to the scene and immediately recognised her two-wheeler next to the Batang Mua River with her belongings, including a motorcycle helmet, a jacket, and a phone.

Search and rescue (SAR) teams were dispatched to scour the location. Volunteers and villagers soon joined the efforts, but Rahmayani remained missing even after several days.

Shockingly, she was spotted alive and well by a fisherman collecting shrimp from his fishing nets on April 9.

Footage shows a visibly exhausted Rahmayani, seen in the video wearing a black shirt, lying in the arms of a rescuer who had dragged her out of the river.

Officials said she was found 'half-submerged with torn clothes'.

Mega Maysilva of the local search and rescue agency said: 'The victim has been found 500 metres from where she disappeared. She is safe and was immediately taken to the nearest clinic. She was later returned to her family in stable condition.

'Over the course of five days, SAR teams were working in the river where she vanished. The team encountered seven large crocodiles.'

Authorities have not clarified how Rahmayani survived in the crocodile habitat. However, she is believed to have foraged for food in woodland along the opposite side of the river.

The Indonesian archipelago is home to 14 types of crocs - with a large population of extremely large and violent estuarine crocodiles that flourish in the region's climate.

Conservationists believe that crocodiles have been driven further inland closer to villages due to overfishing reducing the crocodiles' natural food supplies combined with habitat loss from the development of coastal areas into farms.

Widespread tin mining has also caused villagers to encroach on the crocodiles' natural habitats, pushing the creatures closer toward people's homes.

With uneducated locals in the developing country still using rivers for bathing and primitive fishing, the deadly combination of factors has led to rising numbers of crocodile attacks.