MATARAM - Mercedes and some luxury cars park near from a turboprop Nugrasanta B 350 PK NSI at Brang Biji airport runway at Sumbawa Besar. That is unusually moment. That’s way the special welcome party to come up for Lady Diana arrived. After that Lady Diana with friends to get Aman XI cruise to Moyo Island.

That is special moment at August 16 1993, twelve years ago. Lady Diana came with three women and her bodyguard. They are stayed two night and three days at Amanwana Resort at Moyo Island.

Amanwana Resort with tend hotel concept is hideaway resort that best place for relax and perfect for guest exclusive. Because this resort is so quiet and free disturb. These hotels build of PT Moyo Safari Abadi (MSA).

Lady Diana two nights and three days at this hotel, she looks sad. She stays at tent room in the beach. She get swim and look enjoy sunset in the beach.

Moyo Island builds as a sea garden and for hunting area. At the last time this local for animal and botany protect before. Moyo Island wide about thirty thousand hectare. MSA get permit for manage this island for eco tourism as twelve thousand hectare while for hunt area almost twelve thousand heactare and six thousand for sea garden.

Moyo Island topography is coral island with flat area at south part and hill at north area. Top of hill this island until six hundred meters up to sea surface. As hunting area Moyo so potential wild animal for example deer, wild boar, wild bull, butterfly, snake, blue monkey and etc.

MSA get permit contract to manage Moyo Island as tourism destination for thirty years from Forestry department. MSA management divides these local two parts, for resort and hunting activity. At resort have Gedal Brang Sedo for luxury resort area, Amanwana resort for middle and high class and Ai Manis area for economic class.

At Gedal Brang Sedo have beautiful sea garden, best place for dive at night and wreck dive at Nippon submarine sink area that full of nice fish. Wreck dive just thirty minute by boat from Gedal Brang Sedo resort.

Different this area at Ai Manis area have best coral as length more than three kilometers based on LIPI (Indonesian Research and knowledge board) survey at Oct 1993 ago. These sea treasures have another place like Satonda, Brangko and Sebotok with coral slope until forty meters depth under water. More unique at this coral any so many cave.

Another beautiful view is Mata Jitu waterfall. For this area must be ride motor boat 80 PK for thirty minute from Gedal Brang Sedo to Labuan Aji and continued about seven kilometers to location. If walk about one hours. Lady Diana just fifteen minutes ride by open jeep to get Mata Jitu waterfall.

Many wild animals have at Moyo Island. Beside all animals at above, Moyo have Gosong bird also. These birds have unique when she hatches egg she must be collapse.

About flora collection, in Moyo have wide savanna, big tree like Suren, Kesambi, Kuken, Asam, Kayu Batu, binong, Laban, Beringin and many others.

Hunting permits give government for ideal population at this forest. Based Mataram University Research Center (PSL Unram) at 1990 this area any three thousand deer population, bull population any one thousand and wild pig. This pig population is more than ideal. For balancing this animals can hunt anytime.

MSA get permit contract for manage half of twenty thousand hectare but ten thousand hectare area has disturb protect from anyone or anything. MSA management just permits for hunting activity over population that have there. Only old animal’s population that get hunt beside that hunt game is forbidden. This hunt activity is under control and get for unproductive animal.

For this government regulation depend PSL Unram research result said PSL Unram chairman Abdullah MT alm (now have pas away) for five years only twenty hunter people can hunt at this area. And than for three years after public open per hunter just have four deer and two bulls. For hunt pig only five.

For this calculation on yearly only 100 hunters have permit hunt activity in this area for two hundred animals. Beside for hunting activity in this area get hatchery also.

Government protect for animal population with regulation only professional hunter can be hunt activity in there. Professional hunter is hunters get permit of hunt and gun. Special hunt animal in Moyo is bull population whereas no have at another place. (Supriyantho Khafid).

TO MOYO
Sumbawa gets by plane from Denpasar or Mataram twice per week. If want to by car from Mataram and cross by boat at Kayangan harbor (at east Lombok) to Poto Tano Sumbawa. Just two hours from Poto Tano to Sumbawa city.

Another way to Moyo Island is by fisherman boat from Badas harbor at Sumbawa Besar (about twenty kilometers to east from dusun Ai Bari at Sumbawa city). At this harbor not yet fix schedule to get Moyo Island.

To Tanjung Pasir only twenty minute from Ari Bari also. This place area usually destination tour from Bali per week also. Bali tourism group came to this place just moment after from Komodo Island.

Unluckily Moyo can not destination all time because at west weather this sea is hard to cross by boat. (Supriyantho Khafid).

AMANWANA RESORT
Amanwana resort builds by PT Moyo Safari Abadi (MSA) by CEO Lalu Manambai Abdul Kadir (Laksamana Madya pur ALRI and have Tanzania Zambia ambassador (1974-1978) and ex panglima armada (1974-1978), Abdul also ex as ministry deputy of trade department.

Abdul Kadir is one of aristocratic family at Sumbawa joint venture with Adrian Zecha own Aman’s group that Dutch hotels entrepreneur that born at Sukabumi (west Java). Adrian Zecha lives at Hongkong.

MSA concept at Moyo Island based Abdul Kadir experience when he hunt and stay in tent at wild world Africa. For this project Abdul Kadir said that is for prestige idea for Sumbawa Island that he was born.

MSA build twenty guest shelters with tent at tropic forest. Some of tent, build at beach (eleven tent calls as beach tent) and nine tent at forest (jungle tent). This resort was built on fifty hectare at Gedal Brang Sedo. All shelters completely with restaurant, diving center and employee house. Except guest shelter (tent) all building get bamboo design.

As luxury hotels, Amanwana resort design by Amanwana Hongkong chain management. Like also Amandari Ubud and Amannusa Nusa Dua both at Bali and Amanpuri Thailand.

Interior design at rooms is old concept with wood bed set and cotton cover at room center. Any rattan lampit cover floor. Every room has two sofa and wood round table. Beautiful views look direct from room. This room complete with wardrobe and basin wash, mirror with marmer rock with wood dominant style.

Tent made American product as $ 30.000 USA. These tents cover white cloth. Tall of tent is four meters. On terrace made wood plate about one meter.(supriyantho khafid)