Lombok 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 mostly Muslim.
A.Word
Origin Lombok and Sasak
Lombok
and Sasak are the two names that cannot be separated. Lombok name
for
the islands designation, the name for the designation Sasak tribe. Lombok
Sasak
comes from; "Lombok" means "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 chili in Sasak language
is "Sebia"
B. History Origin
of Name Lombok
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
Lombok
(straight),
in memory of a long journey.
Them
straight to the east. Furthermore, Lombok now not only be the name of the port
where
the boat landed, but also the name of the island Lombok 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 Lombok 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 already immortalized as a street
name and name of the protocol airfield in Mataram, the
capital of West Nusa Tenggara province.
