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5 Rupiah
| Issuer | Republik Indonesia, Governor of Bukittinggi, Sumatra |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Value | 5 Rupiah |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIK INDONESIA LIMA RUPIAH TANDA PEMBAJARAN JANG SAH PROPINSI SUMATERA 5 |
| Reverse description | Blue-green reverse dominated by a central landscape vignette of a Sumatran rural scene with traditional Minangkabau roofed structures, fields, and a volcano in the background, framed by elaborate guilloche scroll borders. A large numeral 5 underprint occupies the centre field, flanked by the denomination words LIMA and RUPIAH in vertical orientation at left and right respectively. A central text block in Indonesian cites the legal tender authority referencing Presidential Regulation No. 1 of 1946. |
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The Bukittinggi issues of 1947 were emergency notes produced by the Republican government operating out of Sumatra while the Dutch were reasserting control over Java. Bukittinggi served as the seat of the Indonesian Emergency Government during this period, making these notes instruments of a wartime administration fighting for survival as much as fiscal tools.
The "Governor of Bukittinggi" authority marks this as a regionally issued obligation rather than a central bank note — part of a fragmented but determined monetary infrastructure the Republic maintained across the outer islands when Batavia was effectively out of reach.