Komodo Island is an island located in the Nusa Tenggara Islands, east of Sumbawa Island, which is separated by the Sape Strait. Komodo Island is known as the original habitat for Komodo dragons.
This island is one of the Komodo National Park areas managed by the Central Government.
Administratively, this island belongs to the West Manggarai Regency, Komodo District, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Komodo Island is the westernmost tip of East Nusa Tenggara Province, bordering West Nusa Tenggara Province.
On Komodo Island, Komodo dragons live and breed well. Until August 2009, on this island there were about 1300 Komodo dragons. Coupled with other islands, such as Rinca Island and Gili Motang, their total number reaches around 2500 individuals. There are also about 100 Komodo dragons in the Wae Wuul Nature Reserve on the mainland of Flores Island but not including the Komodo National Park area.
In addition to Komodo dragons, this island also has a variety of exotic flora, Sepang wood which is used by local residents as medicine and clothing dye, this nitak tree or sterculia oblongata is believed to be useful as medicine and its seeds are tasty and delicious like peas.
Komodo Island is also accepted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, because it is within the Komodo National Park area, along with Rinca Island, Padar Island and Gili Motang
- History
In 1910 the Dutch named the island on the south side of East Nusa Tenggara Province the nickname Komodo Island. This story begins with Lieutenant Steyn van Hens Broek who.
trying to prove the report of the Dutch troops about the existence of a large animal resembling a dragon on the island. Steyn then killed a dragon and brought the documentation to the Museum and Botanical Garden in Bogor for research.
- folklore
Komodo or The Dragon which is a species of this lizard formerly had the nickname “Orah” by the local community. This historical legend of Komodo is told in ancient times, there was a princess named Putri Naga. He lived on an island and later married Moja, a young man from the other island.
Long story short the princess became pregnant and then gave birth to twin sons, both of whom had male sex. It’s just that one of them has a different shape that is similar to a lizard and makes this couple embarrassed.
The two named Orah for a son who was similar to a lizard and named Gerong for a normal baby. Orah was exiled into the forest while Gerong was raised by Princess Dragon and Moja alone. As time passed, Gerong had grown up with a stout body. Until when Gerong was hunting deer, he met a giant lizard, which Gerong chased after and was about to draw a spear.
However, suddenly the Dragon Princess came and forbade the killing of the giant lizard that is currently known as the Komodo dragon. The Dragon Princess explained to Gerong that the lizard was her twin sister named Orah.
Since then the surrounding community has always treated the Komodo dragons as brothers. That’s a little legend about the origin of the Komodo dragon named Orah and being an animal that is treated well to this day.
The indigenous people of Komodo dragons really believe in this story and make this Komodo dragon a part of their daily life and are taken care of like humans
Getting to Know Komodo
Varatus Komodoensis / Komodo dragon or Orah is one of the largest legendary reptile species in world history.
Habitat Komodo currently lives only in the islands of Komodo, Flores, Gili Matang, Gili Dasami and Rinca, East Nusa Tenggara Indonesia.
Komodo is a reptile species that can be deadly. The deadly ability is obtained because of the strength of the bite and the venomous poison that comes from thousands of glands in the gums.
Some people call it the thousands of deadly bacteria that are in the saliva of his mouth. But there has been a rebuttal from some poison research scientists from the University of Melbourne in Australia saying that “all bacteria are scientific fairy tales,” said Bryan Fry.
That actually the Komodo dragon kills prey only from the strength of its bite and tear, by waiting for its prey that escapes to weaken and die. This ferocious carnivore will track down its injured prey and eat at its leisure once it collapses helplessly and dies.
The animal, called Orah by the local community, lives by hunting animals around the Komodo and Rinca islands such as goats, deer and wild boars.
Until now these animals live side by side and even their habitat is made into the Komodo Island National Park.
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