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1 Rupiah

Issuer Bank Indonesia
Year 1964
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Size 120 × 60 mm
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Obverse description A vignette of President Sukarno in military dress uniform with decorations and pilot wings occupies the left portion of the note, rendered against a light guilloche ground. The central field carries the denomination legend 'SATU RUPIAH' beneath the issuer title, with the Minister of Finance signature and the date 1964 below. An ornamental red border frames the entire composition, with stylized floral, botanical, and batik-inspired scroll motifs at the corners and margins.
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Protection type Watermark
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By 1964, Indonesia's monetary situation was deteriorating rapidly — Sukarno's government was running severe deficits, and the money supply was expanding at a pace that would eventually trigger hyperinflation by the mid-1960s. This note is a product of that fiscal pressure: small denominations printed domestically at Percetakan Kebayoran were churned out in volume as the purchasing power of the rupiah collapsed.

Percetakan Kebayoran was one of the few state printing facilities capable of producing currency in-country, a point of nationalist pride under Sukarno's Guided Economy — though the quality constraints of domestic production are evident across the series.

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