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100 Rupiah

Issuer Republik Indonesia
Year 1947
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Shape Rectangular
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Obverse description Blue-green letterpress print. A portrait vignette of President Sukarno appears to the left, with the denomination numeral at center and right. Below the value at lower right, a decorative motif of a pair of machetes and a keris is incorporated into the design.
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Reverse description Purple letterpress print. The denomination is displayed at center, flanked on each side by legal tender text. A stylized mountain pattern forms a repeating border along the edges, with the value repeated in each corner.
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Indonesia's first domestically printed banknotes — this series among them — were produced in Yogyakarta because the Dutch still held Batavia and most of the coast. The Republican government had retreated inland to the Javanese interior following the Dutch return in 1945, and the currency it issued there was a deliberate assertion of administrative function in contested territory. Printing facilities were improvised; the technical quality reflects the circumstances.

Known as ORI — Oeang Republik Indonesia — the series was introduced 30 October 1946, a date still commemorated annually in Indonesia as Hari Keuangan, Finance Day.

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