Lombok indigenous

Segenter is the oldest traditional village of the Sasak people in northern Lombok and the village has been preserved as a show case of the traditional way of life of the Sasak people. According to Cole (2007 – http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/11994/), the Indonesian government has a strategy of identifying and commodifying traditional villages as tourist attractions. Cole gives an interesting discussion on the topic, presenting 10 years of surveys of tourists and villagers in a series of remote villages in Flores, eastern Indonesia. At its extreme Cole documents villages where residents were forbidden to use windows in their dwellings or connect electricity to the village because tourists considered the village to be less traditional if electricity lines passed through the village.

Sasak Traditional village is most famous place to see the indigenous people of Lombok. the traditional lifestyle is protected by the local government. Most of people of Lombok wear Sarung or a long dress that they produce by themselves.

Local people do traditional hand weaving for life, they make waving  for their use only. but since this village become more popular the tourist buy for souvenir and hand gift.