HISTORY OF LOMBOK

17th century, Indonesia, wikipedia.org

The origins of Lombok date back as far as the 14th century but little is known about the island until the 17th century. The local Sasak people, originally animist farmers, converted to Islam around the end of the 16th century

Sasak dancers, wikipedia.org

The Sasak made their way to Lombok long before most of Indonesia’s other ethnic groups settled amongst the 13,000 odd islands of the archipelago, and they are believed to have migrated from either Burma ( now Myanmar) or northwest India