Komodo Island

Komodo National Park

Komodo National Park lies between the two islands is the island of Sumbawa and Flores island between the border of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and West Nusa Tenggara (NTB). Here there are three major islands or island is a bit of the island of Komodo, Rinca and Padar Island and the rest are small islands with a land area of ​​603 km2. Total area of ​​Komodo Island National Park right now is 1917 km2.

History of the island of Komodo National Park

Komodo Island National Park is found around 1980 and has been declared one of the world that need to be protected and the biosphere reserve by the UNESCO in 1986. The park was originally in the form in order to melesatarikan species unique and rare dragon (Komodo) are in the know with scientific language Varanus komodoensis the first time found by JKH Van Steyn about the year 1911. After that Komodo Dragons are not only protected but all good biodiversity of marine and terrestrial conservation areas included in Komodo Island National Park.

The majority of the people who live on the island of Komodo and nearby are the fishermen who came from Bima (Sumbawa), Manggara, South Flores, South Sulawesi, the Bajau tribe originated from Bugis. Bajau tribe originally lived as nomadic tribes who likes to move from one place to other place.

The original inhabitants of the island of Komodo were the Ata Modo tribes that still exist on the island of Komodo, but along with other migrants from the blood, indigenous cultures and languages ​​have been mixed with the newcomers.

Religion
Most of the fishermen who live in the villages of the island of Komodo is especially the Muslim people from Bugis and Bajau Milky mostly Muslim community while bersalal of Manggarai predominantly Christian.

Health
Most of the villages are situated somewhat in pasilitas have clean water but will experience a shortage of clean water when dry season comes, with a decline in water quality during the dry season caused a lot of people who are sick, especially malaria and Diarre.

Mesa Island is an island with a population of about 1,500 people, here to clean water or fresh water there is on average so the locals are buying water Labuan Bajo taken by derigen-derigen which are transported by ship. The average need for local freshwater is Rp. 100,000 per family. Almost every village has a medical pasilitas although with lower quality do not like big cities.