In Reply to: yes it's all relative posted by Hillary on Thursday, 13. May 2010 at 09:01 Bali Time:
West Timor is east of Bali surely? Did you mean east of Bali?
There are hospitals in Lombok that provide reasonable treatment, but I know that even Bali doesn't provide some of the services required and people would need to go to Jakarta or Surabaya. If they have some land to sell to pay for it.
A massage lady I know, who dresses poorly and always moans about her poverty, sends her children to private schools (she keeps that quiet from tourists). Good on her that she puts her hard earned to that rather than material items. She makes on average around 3 - 5 million per month which is more than a teacher or other professional makes. Massaging fat tourists is not everyone's cup of tea though.