Lombok Island, Thousand Island Pearls

The island of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, is an island of a thousand pearls. Everywhere many sellers pearl jewelry. Starting from the hotel lobby, street vendors, area attractions, until every corner of the city, there is always a pearl sellers.
Even so, prices remain expensive sea water pearls. Price per gram of the white start around Rp 250,000 and the most expensive brown around Rp 350,000. So one grain brown pearl that weighs five grams only be worth USD 1.75 million. Sea pearls sold at a price per gram in the shops just a big pearl in around the city of Mataram. Price per gram of sea water pearls its size depending on weight. From Rp 250,000 to Rp 500,000 per gram depending on the size.


The larger grains of sea water pearls, for example, weighing five grams, increasingly expensive price per gram, can be about Rp 500,000 per gram. The total could be USD 2.5 million for the pearls.
A good pearl white and brown are seen clear, smooth and tends to round. There is also a round shape and there are small bumps that form a natural sea water pearls can not be formed in the shells.
But freshwater pearl price is very cheap. The shape is oval like an egg most of the pigeons. Freshwater pearl colors are pink and white.
Freshwater pearl that has been tied up in rings, earrings, and necklaces that use only silver lining for Rp 10,000-Rp 20,000 per piece. But sellers pearls hung in there to open a tourist area prices with the price three times the actual price. You have to dare to offer a third the price.
Gold sellers in the city of Mataram sell pearls complete with rings, necklaces, earrings that have been so tied up with pearls. Buyers can choose a variety of gold jewelry at a price of Rp 475.000 per gram.
While the price of pearl jewelry tied calculated separately depending on the weight of the selected pearls. So if you buy two grams of gold rings Rp 475.000 per gram, meaning a total of Rp 950,000.
White Mutara purchased weighing 2 grams at a price of Rp 200,000 per gram, then the total cost of Rp 400,000. So the total price of the ring to be paid amounting to Rp 1.35 million for two grams of gold rings and pearls as fastening two grams.
Regional sellers of gold and pearls of the most famous in Mataram is Sekarbela area. Along Jalan Sultan Kaharudin these sellers gold and pearl shops lined on both sides along the road.
While the pearl-producing areas on the island of Lombok is Sekotong Beach, West Lombok. Can be reached by car and a half hour from the city of Mataram. There, tourists can see the sea pearl cultivation process. Tourists can see the pearl oysters were injected in order to form a large sea water pearls (Asita Suryanto DK)