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Pulau pisang West lampung
Pulau pisang or Banana Island is a small island in Krui Sea, Lampung Barat, Indonesia. The island that overlooks Krui town is about 285 km from Bandarlampung, and only about 45 minutes by fishing boat from Krui pier, and about 15 minutes from Tembakak. Tembakak is a small town in the mainland of Sumatera, located right at the “stern” of the island.
Pulau Pisang is small. It's only 2,310 hectares wide, with about 1,000 populations. The island which bore a criterion of a wealthy island in the past is now nearly desolated. Thousand of people have moved to the mainland of Sumatera or Java since 80’s. This exodus makes the island quieter.
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From early 70’s up to 80’s, the island was famous for its clove plantation. This island had paid tribute to the dominant trading of clove from Lampung Barat. The populations of the island that were mostly clove farmers were all rich. There were hardly any poor people at the time. As the clove trees flowered more and more, the people became richer and richer. The vintage of the clove was in mid 70’s. At this time, fine houses were built, children were sent to go to school in Java, motorbikes and cars were bought. The people bought everything their money could buy. Later, the children who were sent for schools in Java turned to be prominent citizens in their new homeland and never come back to the island
