Anyone who has recently suffered serious financial headaches due to loss of job or decrease in monthly pay has probably heard all the advice they need from family, an ex-brother-in-law, neighbors and the guy on the adjacent stool at your local
drinking establishment about what to do to solve your dilemma.
The thriving dive industry of the Gili Islands is centred here (although some operators have outposts on the other two islands), and since
about 2005, the island has gone through a massive development boom, and a number of upscale sleeping, eating and
drinking establishments have opened.