Lombok

The Lombok island (the number of inhabitants during 2001: 2,722,123 souls) was an island in the island Sundanese Kecil or Nusa Tenggara that was separated by the Lombok Strait from Bali in a west splint and the Alas Strait on the east from Sumbawa. This island approximately have the shape of round with a kindthe tailin the south-west of that the length approximately 70 km. The topography of this island was dominated by the Rinjani volcano that his height reached 3.726 metre above sea level and made him that was third to be highest in Indonesia. This mountain finally erupted in the month June-July 1994. During 1997 the mountain region and the lake of Segara Anak were in the middle stated was protected by the government. The south area of this island most consisted of the fertile land that was made use of for agriculture, the commodity that usually is buried in the area This including corn, rice, coffee, tobacco and cotton. Around 80% the inhabitants of this island are the Sasak ethnic group, an ethnic group that still close to the Balinese ethnic group, but most embrace the Islam religion. Inhabitant is Balinese, Java, Tionghoa and Arabian. By Indonesian as the national language, the inhabitants of the Lombok island (especially the Sasak ethnic group), use the Sasak language as the main language in everyday conversation. All over Lombok personally the Sasak language can be encountered in four dialect sorts that are different namely the Lombok dialect north, middle, east sea and south-east. Moreover with the number of inhabitants of the Balinese ethnic group that resides in Lombok (most come from eks the Karangasem Kingdom), in several places especially in Lombok West and the Mataram municipality can be encountered the settlement that uses Balinese as the everyday conversational language. Most inhabitants of the Lombok island especially the Sasak ethnic group follow the Islam religion. The second religion biggest that is followed in this island am the Hindu religion, that is embraced by the inhabitants of the Balinese descendants who are numbering around 15% from all over the population there. The Christian follower, Buddha and the other religion can be also met, and are especially embraced by the immigrants from various ethnic groups and the ethnic group that settle in this island. In Lombok West the northern part, to be precise in the area of the Parakeet, especially in their circle that aged Continued, still can be encountered by the followers of the current Islam Wetu Telu (time of three). Unlike generally the follower of the Islam teaching that carries out prayers of five times in a day, of the followers of this teaching mempraktikan pray obligatory only in three times then. It seems this happens because of the disseminator Islam at that time teach Islam in stages and because something cannot complete his preaching. According to the contents of the Lombok Chronicle, the eldest kingdom that has had the power in this island named the Laeq Kingdom (in the language sasak laeq mean the past), but the other source namely the Suwung Chronicle, say that the eldest kingdom available in Lombok am the Suwung Kingdom that is built and led by the King Betara the Sense. The Suwung kingdom afterwards subsides and is replaced by the Lombok Kingdom. In the 9th age till the 11th age stand the Sasak Kingdom that afterwards is overcome by one of the kingdoms that comes from Bali in the period. Several other kingdoms that have stood in the Lombok island including Pejanggik, Langko, the Parakeet, the Samarkaton Support and Selaparang. The Selaparang kingdom personally emerges in two periods that is in the 13th age and the 16th age. The Selaparang kingdom first am the Hindu kingdom and his authority ends with the arrival of the Majapahit royal expedition in the year 1357. The Selaparang kingdom of the two is the Islam kingdom and his authority ends during 1740 after being conquered by the combination The kingdom of acid Coral from Bali and Arya the Brittle Series that is the royal family that berkhianat against Selaparang because of the problem with the king Selaparang. Chilli in many matters resembles Bali, and in the decade in the 1990 's begin to be known by foreign tourists. However with the monetary crisis emergence that strikes Indonesia at the end of 1997 and other crises that are with him, the potential for tourism rather is abandonned. Then at the beginning of 2000 the disturbance happen between-ethnic group and interdenominational all over Lombok so as to the large-scale evacuation of minorities happen. They especially flee to the Balinese island. However every few old afterwards the situation has become conducive and they have come back. During 2007 the sector of tourism is the only sector in Lombok that develops.