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10 000 Rupiah
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Reference(s) | P#118 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a Javanese Gamelan orchestra in finely engraved intaglio, with musicians in traditional batik attire playing the gambang and gong instruments. The left field carries the bank title and denomination legend in bold letterpress over an elaborate multicolour guilloche underprint incorporating the Garuda Pancasila emblem, with two facsimile signatures below captioned GUBERNUR and DIREKTUR and the date 1979. The denomination numeral 10000 appears in the upper-right and lower-left corners, with the Bank Indonesia monogram medallion at the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK INDONESIA SEPULUH RIBU RUPIAH 10000 BARANGSIAPA MENIRU ATAU MEMALSUKAN UANG KERTAS DAN BARANGSIAPA YANG DENGAN SENGAJA ATAU MENYIMPAN UANG KERTAS TIRUAN ATAU UANG KERTAS YANG DIPALSUKAN AKAN DITUNTUT DIMUKA HAKIM |
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Perum Peruri — the state security printing works established in 1971 — had by 1979 taken full control of Indonesian banknote production, ending the country's earlier dependence on foreign printers like Thomas De La Rue and Joh. Enschedé. This note belongs to that consolidation period, when the facility in Karawang was still building toward the production volumes and technical sophistication it would reach in the 1980s.
A print run of just over twelve million is modest for a high-denomination note in an economy Indonesia's size. The 1970s saw persistent inflationary pressure following the oil boom, and 10,000 rupiah — worth roughly twenty-four US dollars at the time of issue — was not trivial spending money.