A tourist cannot learn everything to be learned about Indonesia during a two week holiday trip. Additionally an Indonesian inhabitant cannot learn everything about a two-week-holiday-tourist.

An important piece of information for beach seller is that a tourist has to work hard eleven months a year to pay for this two-week-stay.

Additionally a tourist has thousands of choices to decide where he wants to stay. Even when the choice is Indonesia, the reasons for this are not only the paradise beaches to relax and enjoy but also friendly inhabitants.
But this peace is disturbed in Bali, in Lombok and other areas through sellers trying to sell single souvenirs, clothing, handicraft or shells.

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So the tourist will not return to Indonesia again.

What is more important, a one time tourist or a returning tourist and customer?

Government has to find a solution taking care of interests of all parties.

Number of beach sellers is increasing constantly, at the beach, at religious places and everywhere.

Naturally Indonesia has many interesting and unique attractions and things which tourists like and love. It is only a question where and how to sell.

To tourism ministry belong three hectare of land where three empty and unused broken houses are standing.
 

When tourist ministry would allow L.K.G.A. to use these buildings, L.K.G.A. could repair these buildings and develop a marketplace. At this marketplace souvenirs, clothing, etc. could be sold. Inhabitants might want to sell their own products and no longer beach sellers disturb relaxing tourists at local beaches.

Landscape on Gili Air

This would bring continuous employment for some inhabitants of Gili Air. Employment right would prefer local inhabitants. If these inhabitants choose not to sell their products there (despite preference) inhabitants of Lombok might want to sell themselves and pay rent to L.K.G.A. through this system both sides would profit.

At harbour a large sign showing that it is forbidden to sell handicraft products, clothing etc. at the beach around the island. Sales are limited to the marketplace and other specific places.

Shop on Gili Air

Dokars are called wagons transporting goods; for people transportation Cidomos are used. In both cases, horses are dressed up in colours and with high sounding little bells. In eastern part of Lombok the decorations are more lavish and more colourful than in the west.

At Gili Air these types of transportation is used for last fifteen years. As these transportation is popular and handy but it has its downsides which are seen only by inhabitants and tourists not by external visitors.

Like every other living animal, horses have a digestion, which in consequence brings excrements onto the street. Especially at Gili Air where as main street there is only one street (as an island circle street), the heaps are obvious and everywhere. These horse' excrements are a good fertilizer helping to grow not only plants but also infections on the human body - especially at the feet which open wounds.

Cidomo on Gili Air

On the contrary to Lombok, tourists at Gili Air walk mainly without shoes.

Street on Gili Air

All transport operators oblige themselves to keep the streets clean and according to degree of L.K.G.A. clean some parts of street together with owners of surrounding land. Through coverage with sand, these streets dust in dry season not so much and street appearance is much nicer.

The more tourists come to a place, the more problems of many kinds occur, especially in connection with these tourists.

Knowing that tourism on Gili Air just has started; tomorrow more tourists will come and cause more and larger problems.

Today there are 1.000 adult inhabitants and approximately 400 kids on Gili Air. Additionally there are approximately 300 rooms for tourists with a maximum capacity of 728 tourists per day simultaneously.

Together with beach sellers, tourists' guides, one-day-tourists, etc. the maximum occupancy of people being at Gili Air simultaneously are 2.400 people occupying 173 hectare.

This huge number is the main reason why Gili Air needs a connected security system, with main police stations in Tanjung and Mataram and a branch on Gili Air.

A small but efficient police station should be erected on Gili Air together with L.K.G.A.. This means two policemen with radio equipment and a fixed radio station (or mobile phones) to call, when necessary, police stations in Lombok / Tanjung or Mataram.

Additionally L.K.G.A. will employ two to four security people and pay them wages. This local security is responsible for waste avoidance at beaches, cleanliness of street, bungalows and hotel areas (for their cleanliness the owners are responsible for).
Additionally at night, the work as interface between owners of bungalows and local police. Also when rules of L.K.G.A. are not respected or street sellers are walking around in a disturbing manner, they are responsible to hand out relevant fine notices.

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