East Lombok Regional Government keeps trying to develop Tobacco of Virginia Lombok. It will use alternative energy, one of them is the sun energy, says Lotim Regent HM Sukiman Azmy. He explains that last year the government had converted the use of kerosene into coal. Nevertheless, eventually the tobacco farmer is not ready yet. Thus, we suggest for farmer still using kerosene to use solar energy. (more…)
Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) is having geodiversity resource suitable for geotourism development after they were determined as the geoheritage area. Among them are the volcanic sediment appeared from ocean depths and becoming hills along the coast of Middle Lombok. (more…)
Some giant billboard stand in several strategic locations filled with NTB tourism promotion of their VLS 2012 program. Among them is at the front of Soekarno-Hatta Airport Cengkareng, Ngurah Rai Airport Bali as well as other gateways to Indonesia. “The billboards installment will cooperate with private companies such as Newmont Nusa Tenggara and several government companies,” said head of NTB Tourism and Cultural Division, Gita Aryadi to the press yesterday. (more…)
Hotel occupancy rate (HOR) for stars hotel decreased 13.04 percent during January 2011. If it is compared with that December 2010 resulted 53.26 percent occupancy, then HOR in January 2011 merely 40.22 percent. Moreover, their length of stay also decreased, that was 2.52 day or lessened 0.24 percent from 2.76 days. Number of guests stayed also decrease up to 27.53 percent or from 26.953 people become 19.534 people. (more…)
Australian embassy in Indonesia, Greg Moriarty who met with Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) Governor, Muhammad Zainul Madjdi in his office, on Thursday (February 24) in the morning. The meeting is all about accompanying head of Australia-Indonesia Institute, Prof. Tim Lindsay as to discussing over the increasing of social, economic and politic cooperation aside from increasing their fund assistance. (more…)
NTB government, cooperated with university academicians had observed their official performance. The evaluation that has been conducted for the last two years. From 47 working unit areas or known as SKPD were judge, the result mentioned there are only six units with good status. The remaining of them is good or even lack of good performance. (more…)
Expert Staff Government West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) in Natural Resources Subject, Environment, and Food Resistance drh. Abdul Samad explained if the butchering of chief female cow reached 20 percent or 8 thousand cows from total of 40 thousand butchering cows annually. “The biggest one happened in Sumbawa Island because of the lack of control. In Lombok Island, it has controlled,” said Samad. (more…)
Lombok has been chosen as one of the three area in Indonesia as the host of Indonesia PGA and Series ASEAN. This tournament will be followed by 144 professional golfers in ASEAN as has been decided by Singapore World Sport Group cooperate with Rajawali Sport International. (more…)
Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) spreading their tourism promotion into Asia in order to gathered tourists from China and India. It is due to the potential number of Chinese come to Indonesia even though it just 14 percent of them or around 600 thousand per year. That number is bigger than Middle East tourists whose amount only ten of thousand. NTB is also targeting Australian augmentation due to its relatively closer location if compared with Europe. (more…)
Lombok is specially selected by Foreign Affair Minister of Republic Indonesia, Marty Natalegawa become the host of ASEAN Minister of Foreign Affair Meeting on January 15 – 17 2011. It is due to their point of view as for the area becoming the most appropriate location for that activity. Moreover, with NTB economic and tourism potential, especially Lombok that is goes through quite high development. (more…)