You decide to convince the Dutch of the necessity of your position, sharing your plans for the mines and your ideas in improving productivity.
The Dutch are deeply impressed by your shrewd strategies and you successfully convince them to allow you to keep your job. You breathe a sigh of relief as you feel a weight being lifted off your shoulders, grateful for being able to keep your job and home.
The decades fly by and your family’s diamond business has developed and expanded significantly in the region, eventually taking over the mines when the Dutch left. Your family’s wealth and diamond trade tradition were handed down the generations until today.
Your family has become one of the most influential players in the diamond trade industry in South Kalimantan and has greatly shaped the modern diamond mining and trading industry.
You have come to the end of the story, do you want to start over?
Today, the Cempaka Diamond Mine in southern Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, is seen by some experts as one of the richest diamond fields in the world.
The city of Martapura is known as the "Diamond city" for producing numerous gemstones which are able to attract accessory collectors from all around the world (Suzuki)