LOMBOK ISLAND

Lombok island  (total  population  in  2001 : 2,722,123 inhabitants) ^[1]  is an island in  the Lesser Sunda Islands  or  Nusa Tenggara  are separated by the  Lombok Strait of  Bali  in Sebelat  west  and  the Alas Strait  to the east of  Sumbawa . The island is roughly spherical in shape with a sort of "tail" on the  southwest  whose length is approximately 70 km. Area of the island reaches 5,435 km, putting it at the level 108 of  the list of islands by the breadth of the world . The main town on the island is Mataram .