PEARLS will remind you of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), where since 1990 pearl cultivation entrepreneurs have been on the scene. Markets for pearl jewelry have become increasingly busy after more and more local and foreign tourists visit Mataram.

In 2007, the second largest export, after copper concentrate produced by PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara, was pearls produced by 28 pearl cultivation farms in Lombok and in Sumbawa. The pearls exported to