25 Gulden/Roepiah

De Javasche Bank resumed operations after Japanese occupation ended in 1945, but the political situation in the Dutch East Indies had fundamentally changed — Sukarno's independence declaration in August 1945 meant these notes entered circulation during active armed conflict between Dutch forces and Indonesian nationalists. The dual Gulden/Roepiah denomination wording was a deliberate hedge, acknowledging both the colonial monetary system and the Indonesian term that had been in use throughout the occupation period.

Enschedé printed this series in Haarlem while the territory it was meant to serve was in open revolt. Many notes never left military and administrative channels.