Opening The Festival Moyo. Very Enchanting and Visitors Still Enthusiastic Despite The Rain Spotty

sumbawa girl with headscarf

Sumbawa, PSnews - Governor of NTB, TGH. Zainul Majdi, officially opened the festival Moyo in "field hero". Sumbawa Besar, Tuesday (20/11). Opening a two-month tour event was marked by the beating of the gong three times by the NTB Governor accompanied Sumbawa Regent, Jamaluddin Malik.

During the event, Mr. Guru Bajang, give an appreciation of the implementation of the festival Moyo. To highlight various cultures and customs as well as the potential of tourism in this area.

"Congratulations to Sumbawa. There is a move to progress the area, because something is not easy to start. Moreover, activities like festivals Moyo. I appreciate for anyone who is starting out, "he said.

Governor hopes to all parties not to interpret Festival Moyo from one side, but also the views of the entire indigenous elements Sumbawa regency, KSB and 38 small islands in Sumbawa so much cultural richness. According to him, the culture contains philosophical values. Simultaneously aware, there are many cultural treasures Sumbawa. With the Moyo festival can raise cultural awareness.

very unique and interesting

He hopes that in the future, this event the better. Even suggested to the Government of Sumbawa, in promoting the area must be prepared superior destination. "Do not just smart inviting. For both convenience and security needs, "he said.

Sumbawa Regent, Drs. H. Jamaluddin Malik, said

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Many Universities Want To Create a Campus in Sumbawa

Sumbawa, PSnews - State Accounting College (STAN) considering Sumbawa to serve as one of the locations that will cover the campus STAN eastern Indonesia. Sumbawa Regent, Jamaluddin Malik, told reporters on Monday (19/11), conveyed by STAN Sumbawa is considering to build a campus.

Jamaluddin Malik. http://tribunsumbawa.com

How High School Seamanship (STIP), which is not clear? According to JM familiar names, government still fighting for STIP still built in Sumbawa. But if STAN first then everything will be prepared. Not only STAN and STIP will build the campus.
"UNAIR also want to cooperate with the government to build its Polytechnic in Sumbawa," said JM.

In this case, the local government of Sumbawa. seeks to youth Sumbawa not longer courses outside the district. During this time

Moyo Island - Hidden Paradise

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Moyo Island is located north of Sumbawa. Island with an area of ​​32,044.86 hectares and has population of 1944 inhabitants (census 2010). The island has 2 (two) natural resevers which are a Marine Nature Park with an area of ​​6,000 hectares located on the south part of the island and Moyo Island Hunting Park (based on the decree issued by Minister of Forestry and Plantation no. 308/KPTs-11/1986 on 29 September 1986). These parks are managed by Natural resources Conservation Office of West Nusa Tenggara.

http://www.moyoisland.com

There are 6 (six) villages in Moyo Island :
1. Labuan Aji
2. Brang Rea
3. Sibatok
4. Sitema
5. Patedong

The hunting park is inhabited by wild cattle, wild boar and various species of birds such as Punglor (Zoothera sp), Koakiau (Philemon buceroides)

The Whirlwind Damage 3 Houses in Ledang , District Lenangguar.

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Sumbawa, PSnews - Torrential rains in some places Sumbawa regency, on Thursday (15/11) followed by the brunt of a tornado. As a result three houses in the village Ledang, District Lenangguar collapsed. Estimated damage to the building caused the loss of tens of millions of dollars.

The disaster occurred at around 18:00 pm when rain is accompanied by lightning strikes and surrounding Lenangguar flushed. Three people had to be willing Ledang village houses were damaged.

Blackout again in Sumbawa

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Sumbawa, PSnews - Some days, Sumbawa Besar residents and surrounding cities often feel the effects of a power outage suddenly. Especially when they wanted to do the work in the office or other needs that depend on electricity. Not a few are wondering cause blackouts. In fact, the ability of diesel power generators (diesel) Labuhan Sumbawa has been added.

Moyo Festival 2012 " cultural parade, diving, bull racing and many more. "

Moyo Festival will be officially opened on 20 November 2012 will be an excellent future large-scale promotion of tourism potential in Sumbawa. The potential for tourism is, encompassing indigenous and cultural tourism potential of Sumbawa and nature tourism potential is quite exotic.

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Moyo Festival will take place over three months (November 2012 - January 2013). the festival will be shown twelve activities. Head of Youth, Sport, Tourism and Culture (Disporabudpar) Sumbawa regency Drs. H. Naziruddin, M.Si, describes the opening of the festival activities will be coupled with a cultural parade on November 20, 2012 held at Heroe's Square.

bull racing from http://www.pulausumbawanews.com

At the event, will be shown a wide range of arts and cultural Sumbawa supported arts and culture of other ethnic groups. Then followed many other activities, including Samawa Cultural Week (PBS), which will take place on 26 November to 30 November 2012, which was centered in Saliper Ate, Barapan Kebo which will commence from 1 to 2 November 2012 in the District of North Moyo, Kebo Nange (Buffalo Swim ) going across the sea to the island of Gili Raft grazing district Tarano that will take place in early January 2013.

Trip To Sumbawa Besar

Sumbawa Besar is the largest city on Sumbawa and serves as the capital. As far as capital cities go, don't expect too much as services for travellers are somewhat limited. There is an airport in Sumbawa Besar and Lion Air serve this destination however flights can at times be problematic as the demand is low. It is strongly advisable to check well in advance if there are flights to Sumbawa Besar.

one of the bridges in sumbawa

one of the traditional houses in sumbawa

If you arrive from Lombok you will surely arrive through the ferry port of Poto Tano. Here you will find buses that can take you to the capital, expect 3 hours until your arrival. The road itself is pleasant enough and not so bumpy and from time to time the scenery is pure ruralism at its finest.

Kopi Luwak (most expensive of coffee)

Kopi Luwak or Civet Coffee (Paradoxaurus hermaphroditus) is one of the most expensive low production of coffee, it couldn’t production actually it’s natural from feces of the civet, gathering by the farmer then it has different taste than any coffee that made by human. It is made from the beans of the coffee berries which have been eaten by the civet. Even better, it has unique taste because being process in civet’s stomach.

Wild Luwak Eating Coffee Bean, image from www.surf-sumbawa.info

In its stomach, proteolytic enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acids. Passing through the civet’s intestines the beans are the defecated, keeping their shape. After gathering, through washing, sun drying, light roasting and brewing, these beans yield an aromatic coffe with much less bitterness.

Civet Coffee Bean

Coffee Bean, image from www.surf-sumbawa.info

Kopi luwak mainly brought from highland area such as, Batu Rotok, Tepal, and some villages that plant coffee as their most commodities to sell to other town or even importing it to another country.

Things that made Coffee Luwak expensive is because the way and process itself to get it, the farmer pick it from the ground or where the Civet eat or poop in the night, before selling it they have to gather it to the big sack (grain sack) until the sack is full or filling to specific amount.

Sumbawa Besar

Sumbawa Besar is one of the most populated towns beside Bima and Dompu in the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. It is the capital city of the island and of the Sumbawa Regency of the province of West Nusa Tenggara.


The slogan of the town is BESAR which can mean big in Indonesian. However, this slogan has been used an acronym for:
B Bersih (Clean),
E Elok (Beautiful),
S Sehat (Healthy),
A Aman (Safe),
R Rapi (Proper).

Sumbawa Besar Coral at moyo Island  By : http://www.visualphotos.com

Indonesian is widely spoken in Sumbawa  Besar  with some local languages such as Samawa and Balinese (spoken by Balinese people that moved to Sumbawa  Besar ).
Transportation

Public transportation in Sumbawa  Besar  may include bemo, dokar, and becak.
There are two lines of bemo there, Blue bemo and Yellow bemo. Each serves different routes around the city but both pass the most crowded street in the city, Jalan Kartini. Jalan Kartini may be considered as the centre of the city since local merchants are concentrated in this area and youngsters usually hang out around the water fountain in the middle of the street.

Sumbawa Island

Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islandschain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast. It is in the province of West Nusa Tenggara.

Sumbawa is 15,448 km2 or 5,965 sq mi (three times the size of Lombok) with a current population of around 1.33 million. It marks the boundary between the islands to the west, which were influenced by religion and culture spreading from India, and the region to the east that was not so influenced. In particular this applies to both Hinduism and Islam. 

Sumbawa Map 

Four principalities in western Sumbawa were dependencies of the Majapahit Empire of eastern Java. Because of Sumbawa's natural resources it was regularly invaded by outside forces – Japanese, Dutch, Makassarese. The Dutch first arrived in 1605, but did not effectively rule Sumbawa until the early 20th century. The Balinese kingdom of Gelgel ruled western Sumbawa for a short period as well. It was also home to the Sultanate of Bima.

Historical evidence indicates that people on Sumbawa island were known in the East Indies for their honey, horses, sappan wood for producing red dye, and sandalwood used for incense and medications. The area was thought to be highly productive agriculturally.