[4][5][3] The film was produced shortly following Ratna Moetoe Manikam, released with The Teng Chun's Java Industrial Film, and took similar source material: as with Moestika dari Djemar, it was drawn from the One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, though the films were taken from different stories.
[7] Moestika dari Djemar was shown as early as 8 January 1942, playing in Cirebon.
It was targeted at audiences of all ages and advertised "brilliant costumes – mysticism – adventure and romance".
The American visual anthropologist Karl G. Heider writes that all Indonesian films from before 1950 are lost.
[8] However, JB Kristanto's Katalog Film Indonesia (Indonesian Film Catalogue) records several as having survived at Sinematek Indonesia's archives, and Biran writes that several Japanese propaganda films have survived at the Netherlands Government Information Service.