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General
Information.
Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Barat
or NTB) province, Indonesia. It forms part of the chain of the
Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from
Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa to
the east. It is roughly circular, with a "tail" (Sekotong
Peninsula) to the southwest, about 70 km across and a total area
of about 4,725 km˛ (1,825 sq mi). The provincial capital and
largest city on the island is Mataram. It is somewhat similar in
size and density with neighboring Bali and shares some cultural
heritage, but is administratively part of NTB along with
sparsely populated Sumbawa. It is surrounded by a number of
smaller islands locally called Gili. The island is home to some
3.16 million Indonesians as recorded in the decennial 2010
census, and in 4 regencies along with the provincial capital
Mataram.
Administration.
Lombok is under the administration of the Governor of the
province of West Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Barat). The island
is divided into four regencies, North Lombok Regency, Central
Lombok Regency, East Lombok Regency and West Lombok Regency. The
province of West Nusa Teggara is administered from the
provincial capital of Mataram in West Lombok.
History.
Little is known about the Lombok before the seventeenth century.
Before this time it was made up of numerous competing and
feuding petty states each of which were presided over by a Sasak
'prince'. This disunity was taken advantage of by the
neighboring Balinese who took control of western Lombok in the
early seventeenth century. The Makassar's meanwhile invaded
eastern Lombok from their colonies in neighboring Sumbawa. The
Dutch had first visited Lombok in 1674 and the Dutch East India
Company concluded its first treaty with the Sasak Princess of
Lombok. The Balinese had managed to take over the whole island
by 1750, but Balinese infighting resulted in the island being
split into four feuding Balinese kingdoms. In 1838, the Mataram
kingdom brought its rivals under control.
Relations between the Sasak and Balinese in western Lombok were
largely harmonious and intermarriage was common. In the island's
east, however, relations were less cordial and the Balinese
maintained control from garrisoned forts. While Sasak village
government remained in place, the village head became little
more than a tax collector for the Balinese. Villagers became a
kind of serf and Sasak aristocracy lost much of its power and
land holdings.
During one of the many Sasak peasant rebellions against the
Balinese, Sasak chiefs sent envoys to the Dutch in Bali and
invited them to rule Lombok. In June 1894, the governor general
of the Dutch East Indies, Van der Wijck, signed a treaty with
Sasak rebels in eastern Lombok. He sent a large army to Lombok
and the Balinese raja capitulated to Dutch demands. (see Dutch
intervention in Lombok) The younger princes however overruled
the raja and attacked and routed the Dutch. The Dutch
counterattacked overrunning Mataram and the raja surrendered.
The entire island was annexed to the Netherlands East Indies in
1895. The Dutch ruled over Lombok's 500,000 people with a force
of no more than 250 by cultivating the support of the Balinese
and Sasak aristocracy. While the period was one of deprivation
for the Sasak, they Dutch are remembered as liberators from
Balinese hegemony.
During World War II a Japanese invasion force comprising
elements of the 2nd Southern Expeditionary Fleet invaded and
occupied the Lesser Sunda Islands, including the island of
Lombok. They sailed from Soerabaja harbor at 09:00 hrs on 8
March 1942 and proceeded towards Lombok Island. On 9 May 1942 at
17:00 hrs the fleet sailed into port of Ampenan on Lombok
Island. The Dutch defenders were soon defeated and the island
occupied.
Following the cessation of hostilities the Japanese forces
occupying Indonesia were withdrawn and Lombok returned
temporarily to Dutch control. Following the subsequent
Indonesian independence from the Dutch, the Balinese and Sasak
aristocracy continued to dominate Lombok. In 1958, the island
was incorporated into the province of West Nusa Tenggara with
Mataram becoming the provincial capital. Mass killings of
communists occurred across the island following the abortive
coup attempt in Jakarta and Central Java. During President
Suharto's New Order administration, Lombok experienced a degree
of stability and development but not to the extent of the boom
and wealth in Java and Bali. Crop failures led to famine in 1966
and food shortages in 1973. The national government's
transmigration program moved a lot of people out of Lombok. The
1980s saw external developers and speculators instigate a
nascent tourism boom although local's share of earnings was
limited. Indonesia's political and economic crises of the late
1990s hit Lombok hard. In January 2000, riots broke out across
Mataram with Christians and ethnic Chinese the main victims,
with alleged agents provocateur from outside Lombok. Tourism
slumped, but in recent years has seen a renewed growth.
Demographics
The island's inhabitants are 85% Sasak whose origins are thought
to have migrated from Java in the first millennium BC Other
residents include an estimated 10–15% Balinese, with the small
remainder being Tionghoa-peranakan, Javanese, Sumbawanese and
Arab Indonesians. The Sasak population are culturally and
linguistically closely related to the Balinese, but unlike the
Hindu Balinese, the majority are Muslim and the landscape is
punctuated with mosques and minarets. Islamic traditions and
holidays influence the Island's daily activities. In 2008 the
Island of Lombok had 866,838 households and an average of 3.635
persons per household. The 2010 census recorded a population of
4,496,855 people in the province of NTB, of which 70.42% reside
on Lombok, giving it a population of 3,166,685.
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