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Lombok has a fairly large population (1.5 million), a mixture of Islamic Sasak and Hindu Balinese. The Balinese conqured Lombok and enslaved its native peoples, the Sasaks, in the 18th Century. The Sasaks are a hill tribe of a different racial stock with dark skin, long heads, wavy hair and more caucasian facial features. This was a result of migration streams at an earlier date than most Indonesian ethnic groups, the Sasaks coming overland from N.W. India or Burma. Today the Balinese make up 5% of the population and live mainly in the west. To the east are the Sasaks, heavily Islamicized and poorer. Most of the Chinese in the east were killed off in 1965-66. Though Muslim, Sasak boys are carried in a circumcision ceremony borrowed from Hindu Bali to the west. The boy rides on a lion with a tail of palm fronds. No anesthetic is used; each boy must be willing to suffer pain for Allah. There's much pageantry in Sasak courting rituals. If a girl accepts a gift from an admirer, she must marry him. The native Sasak dances include: Cupak, Cepung, Tawa-Tawa, Gendang Belek, Rudat, Kroncang Sampi. You can charter a dance troupe for Rp15,000 a show. Gorgeous cloths and ceremonial fabrics are woven on this island. The men wear a batik kain with an attached ikat (sapuk) border. The women of Lombok, who aren't allowed to wear gold ornaments, don the black baju iambung with a black kain and a red shawl Ibeberutl.