Lombok Island is an island in the Lesser Sunda Islands or Nusa Tenggara are separated by the Lombok Strait from Bali in Sebelat west and the Alas Strait to the east of Sumbawa. The island is roughly spherical with a kind of "tail" on the southwest side whose length is approximately 70 km. This island wide reach 5435 km ², placing it on the ranking list of 108 of the island based on the breadth of the world. The main town on the island is Mataram.
GeographyLombok Strait marks the boundaries of flora and fauna of Asia. Starting from the island of Lombok to the east, flora and fauna show more similarity with the flora and fauna found in Australia than Asia. The scientist who first stated this is Alfred Russel Wallace, an Englishman in the 19th century. To honor this limit is called the Wallace Line.
Topography of the island is dominated by Rinjani volcano which height reaches 3726 meters above sea level and making it the third highest in Indonesia. The mountain last erupted in June-July 1994. In 1997 the mountain region and the adjoining lake Segara Anak declared protected by the government. Area south of the island consists mostly of fertile land used for agriculture, commodities which are usually grown in this area include maize, rice, coffee, tobacco and cotton.
DemographyAbout 80% of the population of this island is the Sasak tribe, a tribe that is still close to the tribal peoples of Bali, but most converted to Islam. The remaining population is Balinese, Javanese, Chinese and Arabic.
LanguageBesides the Indonesian language as the national language, the inhabitants of the island of Lombok (Sasak tribe mainly), use the Sasak language as the main language in everyday conversation. Across Lombok Sasak language itself can be found in four different dialects of different dialects which Lombok northern, central, northeast and southeast. In addition to the number of inhabitants who settled in Bali Lombok (mostly from the former Kingdom of Karangasem), in some places, particularly in West Lombok and Mataram Municipality of the township which can be found using the language of Bali as the language of everyday conversation.
TourismLombok in many ways similar to Bali, and in the decade of the 1990s began to be known by foreign tourists. But with the advent of the monetary crisis that hit Indonesia in late 1997 and other crises that accompany it, the potential of tourism rather not fail.
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