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100 Rupiah
| Issuer | Republic of Indonesia |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Reference(s) | P#20 |
| Obverse description | Blue-green letterpress print. A portrait vignette of President Sukarno appears at the left, with the denomination numeral centred and repeated to the right. In the lower right, a crossed pair of machetes and a keris are rendered beneath the value, serving as a patriotic underprint motif. |
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| Reverse description | Purple letterpress print. The denomination value is centred, flanked on each side by the legal tender text. A stylised mountain-range guilloche border frames the outer edges, with value numerals repeated in each corner. |
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Indonesia's first domestic currency issue, the ORI (Oeang Republik Indonesia), was launched on 30 October 1945 — a date now commemorated annually as Indonesian Finance Day. The 100 Rupiah was among the highest denominations in that inaugural series, authorized by Finance Minister A.A. Maramis just weeks after the independence proclamation. Printing was handled domestically under improvised conditions, the new republic having neither an established security printer nor access to the sophisticated facilities the Dutch colonial apparatus had relied upon.
The Dutch refused to recognize the ORI as legal tender, and in occupied zones it was actively suppressed. Notes captured by Dutch forces were sometimes defaced or destroyed outright.