East Lombok Regency
Kabupaten Lombok Timur is one of Lombok's four Regencies or administrative regions.
| East Lombok Regency Desa (sub-district). | consists of 20 Kecamatan and 119 - |
In 2010 East Lombok Regency recorded 1,081,630 persons in the decennial census, 24.7% being officially below Indonesian poverty level This regency is primarily Muslim, with few people of Balinese origin compared with West Lombok.
The Sasak people are the indigenous people of Lombok and form the majority of East Lombok's residents. East Lombok is also home to people of Balinese, Chinese, Tionghoa-peranakan people of mixed Indonesian and Chinese descent and small number of Arab Indonesian people, mainly of Yemeni descent who originally settled in the early port city of Ampenan.
Most people in east Lombok normally the Sasak language. Bahasa Sasak is the native language of the indigenous people of Lombok. Bahasa Indonesian is the language most widely used in everyday interactions at places such as hotels, larger shops in the township of Praya and in the government offices. When at home or a place of recreation east Lombok residents tend to use local eastern Lombok dialects of the Sasak language.
Rivers and catchment areas:' Lombok Island has four main watersheds. Menanga watershed is administratively in the territory of East Lombok. The Governor of Nusa Teggara Barat declared Menanga watershed a critical watershed by Decree No. 122 in 2005. Lombok is faced with a serious water supply and management problem, caused by increasing forest and water table damage, land degradation and poor forestry management. West Nusa Tenggara province is threatened with a with water crisis caused by increasing forest and water table damage and degradation.
The region is essentially agrarian in activity with rice, copra, casava, tobacco, timber and other crops. Rainfall is lower in the south of the Regency and higher in the north as the land rises toward Mount Rinjani. Rinjani supplies a rainfall catchment area to the region and several into eastern Lombok rivers flow from its slopes. The sea supports a small local fishing industry, seaweed harvesting, a pearl industry and prawn farming.
The growing tourism industry in Lombok has had little effect on the eastern coast. The proximity of the new Lombok International Airport will possible lead to an increase in tourism related business and development in east Lombok in coming years.
Public ferries' provide services for both passengers and vehicles. Labuhan Lombok is in East Lombok Regency and provides connections eastward to Sumbawa. Tanjung Lembar in the south west of the island is Lombok's main port and handles small freighters, fishing boats and the combination vehicle and passenger ferries heading westward to Bali.
These ferries connecting to nearby Sumbawa and Bali provide the principal facilities for road transport movements in and out of Lombok. Disruptions on these routes can significantly affect trade and the provision of supplies to the island as the shipping operators on these routes will often suspend services due to breakdown or heavy seas.
The new international airport will provide facilities for wide bodied aircraft with more modern terminal facilities and improved cargo facilities.
Lombok International Airport in Central Lombok is south west of Praya in south central Lombok. The airport commenced operations on 1 October 2011 replacing the previous international and domestic facilities at Selaparang Airport near Ampenan in West Lombok Regency which formally closed for operations on the evening of 30 September 2011. All services previously operated at the Selaparang airport were moved across to the new airport at that time.
| Please see main Lombok | article for more detail. |
| There are Four | Regencies on the Island of Lombok. |
Related Sites for East Lombok Regency
- East Lombok Regency of West Nusa Tenggara read East Lombok Regency
- East Lombok Regency Informations, Selong, West Nusa รข€¦ read East Lombok Regency
- New East Lombok regent, vice regent installed | The Jakarta Post read East Lombok Regency
- Central Lombok Regency - Triposo read East Lombok Regency
