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The Lombok Times began publication in November 2003 from a small office in the capital of Lombok, Mataram, with an initial circulation of 1,500 copies. Since its first publication, The Lombok Times has been the largest English language newspaper in both Bali and West Nusa Tenggara. In 2005, its circulation reached five thousand copies, to grow ...
To combat the resistance, the colonial government began to concentrate power in West Nusa Tenggara. This was reinforced by the emergence of Lombok for international trade, so the desire of the Dutch to rule West Nusa Tenggara became stronger. The Dutch colonial government sent Stephen van Hegen for a close look at the Bima Sultanate in 1660.
Lombok is somewhat similar in size and density, and shares some cultural heritage with the neighboring island of Bali to the west. However, it is administratively part of West Nusa Tenggara, along with the larger and more sparsely populated island of Sumbawa to the east. Lombok is surrounded by a number of smaller islands locally called Gili.
North Lombok Regency is bounded by the Java Sea to the north, Central Lombok Regency and West Lombok Regency to the south, East Lombok Regency to the east and the Lombok Strait to the west. Central to the regency is Mount Rinjani , which at 3,726 metres (12,224 ft) is the third highest mountain and the second largest volcano in the country; it ...
To the north lies the Java Sea.To the west are North Lombok Regency and Central Lombok Regency.To the south is the Lombok Basin and the Indian Ocean and to the east lies Elas Strait, a narrow body of water separating Lombok and the nearby small Gili Belang from Sumbawa which lies approximately 15 km to the east.
This article is part of a series on: Subdivisions of Indonesia; Level 1; Provinces (provinsi or daerah istimewa) (GDP; GDP per capita; HDI; poverty rate); Island population)Level 2
Central Lombok Regency is a regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten) of the Indonesian Province of West Nusa Tenggara.It is located on the island of Lombok and the capital is Praya.It covers an area of 1,208.39 km 2, and had a population of 859,309 at the 2010 census [2] and 1,034,859 at the 2020 census; [3] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 1,099,211 (comprising 545,905 males and 553,306 females).
This province borders East Timor (Timor-Leste) in the western part of Timor island, and is also close to the province of West Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Barat) and the province of Maluku. The province consists of about 566 islands, the largest and most dominant are Flores, Sumba, and the western part of Timor.