Billabong Pro Junior Indonesia Fires Up Today at Shipwrecks on Nusa Lembongan

29 July 2011, Nusa Lembongan-Indonesia: Day One of the Billabong Pro Junior Indonesia at the famous Shipwrecks righthand surf break on the island of Nusa Lembongan saw Round One of the Under 16 Division and four rounds of the Pro Junior (Under 21) Division completed in rippable 2-3 foot waves.

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Billabong Pro Junior Indonesia Announced

Billabong is stoked to announce that the highly anticipated Billabong Pro Junior 2011 will be hosted by Nusa Lembongan’s legendary Shipwreck break.
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Improve Infrastructure on Lembongan, Urges Politician

A local politician has called for the authorities to work to improve infrastructure on Nusa Lembongan, saying that while tourism has developed rapidly on the island, providing increased revenues, the authorities have done nothing to support the industry.

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Agus Frimanto Take First Win at Mentawai Surf Competition 2011

23 June 2011, Katiet – Sipora Island, Mentawai: In an unexpected matchup at the 30 minute final of the inaugural Mentawai Surf Competition in the world class wave known as Lances Right, Agus Frimanto and Putra Hermawan battled it out with Frimanto coming out on top to take his first ever Coca-Cola ISC Tour victory.

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Saving mangroves, improving village economy

Wayan Sukitra, 47, recalls a time when degraded mangrove forests in his small fishing village in Jungut Batu in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, allowed seawater to inundate it in high tides.
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‘Finding Nemo’ in Nusa Lembongan

A plan to go diving was already in my mind when I took a flight from Jakarta to Bali. As soon as I arrived on the island, I immediately set off for Sanur and crossed the Badung Strait by public speedboat.
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Indonesia’s 2010 Surfing Champion Putra “Pulu” Hermawan renews his sponsorship deal with Rip Curl Asia.

18-year-old Komang Putra Hermawan, a.k.a Pulu, yesterday resigned his sponsor agreement with Rip Curl for another 2-year period. The super grom from Lembongan Island won the ISC (Indonesian Surfing Championship) Open Division and the ISC Pro Junior championships in 2010, and is on his way to becoming a successful international pro surfer.
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Team Nusa Lembongan Wins First Heat of Oakley Tag Team Challenge

3 April 2011, Canggu-Bali: In the final minutes of the one hour first heat/round of the inaugural Oakley Tag Team Challenge today at Canggu Beach in the pouring rain, Team Nusa Lembongan blitzed past rivals Pererenan, Legian, and Canggu to take the win.
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Mangrove Ecotours and Conservation

On the island of Nusa Lembongan, tour operators and environmentalists are working together to protect a vital resource.

When the 2004 tsunami struck the province of Aceh and other coastal areas in the region, some communities survived because they were shielded by mangrove forests.
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Ecotourism puts Nusa Lembongan on the map

Locals, government authorities and environmentalists in Nusa Lembongan Island have been working hand-in-hand over the last couple of years to cultivate seaweed and preserve the mangrove forest by developing it as an ecotourism site.
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