The island of Lombok is an island in the Lesser Sunda Islands or Nusa
Tenggara which is separated by the Lombok Strait from Bali in the west and the
Alas Strait to the east of Sumbawa. This island is more or less rounded with a
kind of tail on the southwest side that is approximately 70km long. The island is
ranked 108th from the list of islands based on its size in the world. Lombok
Island has one city and four districts, namely Mataram City, North Lombok
Regency, West Lombok Regency, Central Lombok Regency, and East Lombok Regency.
The main city on this island is the city of Mataram.
Lombok is in many ways similar to Bali, and in the 1990s it began to be
recognized by foreign tourists. But with the advent of the monetary crisis that
hit Indonesia at the end of 1997 and other accompanying crises, tourism potential
was somewhat neglected. Then in the early 2000s there were inter-ethnic and
inter-religious riots throughout Lombok resulting in massive displacement of
minorities. They mainly fled to the island of Bali. But after a while the
situation had become conducive and they were back. In 2007 the tourism sector
was the only sector in Lombok that developed.
About 80% of the island's population is the Sasak tribe, a tribe that is
still close to the Balinese ethnic group, but most of them embrace Islam. The
rest of the population are Balinese, Javanese, Chinese and Arabs. Besides
Indonesian as a national language, the inhabitants of the island of Lombok
(especially the Sasak tribe), use the Sasak language as the main language in
everyday conversation. Throughout Lombok itself the Sasak language can be found
in four different types of dialects namely the dialect of Lombok north, center,
northeast and southeast. In addition, with the large number of Balinese
residents living in Lombok, in some places, especially in West Lombok and the
Municipality of Mataram can be found villages that use Balinese as the language
of everyday conversation.
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