THE BAY near Cemare village, about one kilometre from Port Lembar in West Lombok, is an ideal place to see successful mangrove plantings and Lombok villagers at work and at play.Visitors arriving at Port Lembar will be treated to the panorama of villagers going about the business and leisure of fishing in the thick mangrove forests of Cemare Bay, to the west of the port.
Cemare village is home to hundreds of families, but its only access is across a wooden bridge that can take only two-wheeled vehicles. The bridge is a popular meeting place, especially for children in the late afternoon.
From the bridge, the view is of mangrove forests planted in the sleepy bay by local communities and of fishermen guiding their canoes home after a day of activity. “Mangroves are part of our lives,” said Cemare resident Sahnan, 45. “They provide a suitable habitat for the fish we catch.”
Most Cemare villagers depend on fishing for their livelihoods and they have responded to annual tidal erosion that threatens their community and their earnings by cooperating with local governments to plant mangrove seedbeds in the bay and mangroves on the foreshore.
Some villagers supplement their earnings from fishing by salt farming, though it has not been developed professionally as in some other regions. In simple huts, on the edge of the bay near the village, residents use firewood to produce only one or two sacks of salt a day which are sold for Rp45,000.
Picturesque Cemare Bay, with its dozens of fishing boats lined up along the shore, is a popular destination for local tourists, along with Senggigi Beach and Endok Beach in Gerung, during the Moslem Lebaran Topat tradition.
source:enchanting-lomboksumbawa.com
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