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Indonesia
 
    
 

 

Country overview

 

 

Republik Indonesia
Capital Jakarta
Population (millions) 237.5
Area (sq km) 1,919,440
GDP per capita (USD PPP) 3,600

 

 

Polymer overview

 

 

Country ranking 6th All varieties 5
Year of the first polymer issue 1993 Proof 1
Number of polymer issues 2 Specimen 2
Current status Paper Regular 2
New polymer issues expected? No Replacement 0

 

 

General information

 

 

 

Central Bank of Republic of Indonesia

Bank Indonesia (Bahasa Indonesia)
 

 

 

 
Governor
(Gubernur)		 Director
(Direktur)

A. Mooy
Hasudungan Tampubolon

Syahril Sabirin
Iwan R. Prawiranata
 

 

Bank notes for sale (additional offers)

 

 

Basic varieties of bank notes can be purchased further down this page from the bank notes' tables.

 

This table shows additional offers:

 

PIC REF. DESCRIPTION PRICE BUY
S1R1 P134. 50,000 Rupiah. Year 1993. Note in folder.
Image		 €36.00
S2R1a P140. 100,000 Rupiah. Year 1999. Printed by NPA. Prefixes below APA. €33.00
 

 

Bank notes

 

COUNTRY REF. CURRENCY DENOMINATION SIZE PICK PRINTER POLYMER
Indonesia S1 Rupiah 50,000 153x77 P134 NPA Guardian®

REF. DATE SIGNATORY DESCRIPTION PRICE PICS
S1S1 1993 Mooy-Tampubolon SPECIMEN not given F  B
S1R1 1993 Mooy-Tampubolon €26.00
 F  B
 

Issued on 01.03.93. Withdrawn from circulation on 21.08.00. Although the notes ceased to be legal tender, they can be redeemed through commercial banks until 20.08.05 and through Bank Indonesia until 20.08.10, at which point they will be demonetised.

 

It should be noted that the OVDs on a large number of notes have been poorly manufactured—such OVDs exhibit numerous tiny holes in the silver foil and along the foil edge.

 

 

Indonesia, 50,000 Rupiah, issued in 1993. This bank note was issued to commemorate the 25 years of the Indonesian development, i.e., the success of the first long-term 25-year development period, beginning in 1969 and ending in 1994. Front: President Soeharto (resigned in 1988) as the Father of Indonesian Development with the representation of various sectoral developments (culture, agriculture, infrastructure, education, chemical industry) in the background. Back: Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and a Garuda Indonesia Boeing 747-400 airplane taking off, illustrating that the Indonesian development is entering the process of take-off.

 

COUNTRY REF. CURRENCY DENOMINATION SIZE PICK PRINTER POLYMER
Indonesia S2 Rupiah 100,000 151x65 P140 NPA, NPW Guardian®

REF. DATE SIGNATORY DESCRIPTION PRICE PICS
S2P1 1999 Sabirin-Prawiranata PROOF; printed by NPW; serial number 000000; various serial number prefixes €400.00 F  B
image from K.H. Boon
S2S1  1999  Sabirin-Prawiranata SPECIMEN; serial number AAA 000000 not given F  B
images from WPB
S2R1 1999 Sabirin-Prawiranata €29.00
 F  B
 

Issued on 01.11.99.

 

Bank Indonesia issued 500 million of Rp 100,000 plastic notes in anticipation of an increased demand demand for cash as a result of worries about the Year 2000 computer bug. According to the Bank Indonesia’s deputy governor Aulia Pohan’s 1999 statement, the central bank would print up to Rp 50 trillion value of the new Rp 100,000 notes before the new year. Pohan also said the new Rupiah bank notes would be made of polymer substrate plastic, adding the material would last for about six years and help prevent counterfeiting.

 

 

S2R1a has been printed by NPA. S2R1b has been printed by NPW and the first serial number prefix for this issue is APA. Apart from serial number prefixes, there are no visible differences between the two issues.

 

 

Genuine specimen notes have zero serial numbers. There are counterfeited 'specimen' notes on the market that are handstamped 'SPECIMEN TIDAK BERLAKU' in red ink. These notes have regular (circulating) serial numbers and are worthless (save the face value).

  

 

Indonesia, 100,000 Rupiah, issued in 1999. This bank note was one of the key measures for the preparation for the Millennium Bug. The Bank of Indonesia wanted to accumulate a stock of bank notes in the event the computer systems crashed. 500 million notes have been printed. Front: Indonesia's founding President Soekarno and Vice-President Mohammad Hatta. Soekarno's portrait, first appearing on Indonesian bank notes in 1950, was removed after Soeharto seized power in 1965 and was reintroduced on this note. The text from the Indonesia's 1945 independence proclamation in the centre. Back: The House of Representatives building.

 

 

Bank Indonesia issues plastic money Rp. 100,000 (1999)

 

 

Indonesia to issue new bank note with Sukarno image (1999)

 

 

 

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