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1 Rupiah
| Issuer | Republik Indonesia - Sub Propinsi Sumatera Selatan (Sub-Province of South Sumatra), Bukittinggi |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIK INDONESIA TANDA PEMBAJARAN JANG SAH BERLAKU UNTUK SUB PROPINSI SUMATERA SELATAN 1 SATU RUPIAH GUBERNUR SUMATERA BUKITTINGGI, 1.1.1948 PROPINSI SUMATERA |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
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One of the more obscure emergency issues to come out of the Indonesian National Revolution, this note was authorized not by the central republic in Yogyakarta but by the Sub-Province of South Sumatra operating out of Bukittinggi — a city that was itself the seat of the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (PDRI) during the Dutch "Police Action" of late 1948. The political geography here matters: Bukittinggi in West Sumatra was issuing currency ostensibly for South Sumatra, a jurisdictional anomaly produced entirely by wartime dislocation.
Locally printed under blockade conditions, the guilloche underprint represents a genuine attempt at rudimentary security rather than a formality — counterfeit suppression was a real operational concern when Dutch forces were actively destabilizing the republican monetary system.