Lombok

Lombok is the name of an island which has now become one of the province of West Nusa Tenggara. The other island is the island of Sumbawa. Lombok including small island in the archipelago, but for the province of West Nusa Tenggara is one of the great island. Lombok extent of one-third of the island of Sumbawa. However, residents of West Nusa Tenggara which amounted to more than three million, two-thirds live on the island of Lombok. This happens because the more fertile island of Lombok Sumbawa Island. Lombok Island residents are Sasak. They are followers of Islam.

Lombok and Sasak are the two names that can not be separated. Lombok name for the islands designation, the name for the designation Sasak tribe. Lombok Sasak comes from; "Lombo," meaning "straight". Sasak is actually derived from "sak-sak" which means "outrigger boat".

However, many people misunderstand. Lombok means "chili" that some interpret the island of Lombok as "spicy island". Whereas chilli in Sasak language is "Sebia" (pronounced "sebie")

The following story will explain the origins of why they are called Lombok and Sasak.

Lombok names in a variety of oral and written stories in takepan palm is one of the names on the island of Lombok. Another name that is frequently mentioned is the island "Meneng" which means "deserted". Some call "Gumi Sasak", there is no "Gumi (earth) Selaparang", according to the name of one of the kingdom's famous Lombok in ancient times, the kingdom Selaparang.

Lombok Island since the days of the Majapahit kingdom is already well known. This is evidenced by calls in Negarakertagama book written by MPU PRAPANCA. Negarakertagama found also in Lombok.

Sasak legend tells that in the days of yore, Old Mataram kingdom in Central Java, led by a king named Pramudawardhani woman who marries Pikatan Rakai. It is said that the Empress was an expert on government, while her husband warfare expert. His power to the west to Sumatra Island, to the east to the island of Flores. When that many people Mataram go sailing eastward through the Java Sea using outrigger boat.

Their goal sailing is not known for certain. Whether to expand the powers or avoid strenuous work, because at that time Borobudur, Prambanan and Kalasan being built by the king.

So they sailed straight to the east and landed in a port. The port was named Lomboq (straight), in memory of a long journey.

Them straight to the east. Furthermore, Lomboq now not only be the name of the port where the boat landed, but also the name of the island Lomboq which later turned into Lombok. They sailed on a boat bercadik called "sak-sak," and they be called the Sak-Sak That means people who come by boat. Then, they blend in with the natives. At that time, on the island of Lombok has no kingdom called the kingdom Kedarao (perhaps now Sembalun and Sambelia). They then established a kingdom centered in Labuhan Lombok Lombok right now. Lombok kingdom becomes big, grown in five centuries, to be known throughout the country, as the ports visited by the merchants of Tuban, Gresik, Makassar, Banjarmasin, Ternate, Tidore, even Malacca. If it came to Lombok, the Malacca buy rice, indigo, and Sepang timber.

Lombok kingdom was then defeated by the Majapahit kingdom. The king and queen fled to the mountains and established a new kingdom Yang named Watuparang that became known by the name of Selaparang kingdom.

When is the name Lomboq turned into Lombok, and name-Sak Sak turned into Sasak is not known for certain. What is clear now known as the island of Lombok and his tribe known as the Sasak tribe. Selaparang name is now immortalized as the name of a street and name protocol airfield in Mataram, the capital of West Nusa Tenggara province. :3 


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