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50 Rupiah
| Issuer | Pemerintah Daerah Palembang (Regional Government of Palembang) |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Crude letterpress-printed note on plain paper, with a central vignette of indistinct design rendered in dark ink. The denomination numeral '50' appears at the lower right, while the inscriptions 'REPUBLIK INDONESIA' and 'PALEMBANG' are arranged across the upper field. A serial number appears at the upper right corner, with additional text at left indicating the issuing regional authority. |
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| Obverse lettering | RUPIAH REPUBLIK INDONESIA PALEMBANG 50 |
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One of the more unusual survival stories in Indonesian emergency currency: the Pemerintah Daerah Palembang issued these notes during the Dutch military actions — what the Netherlands called "police actions" — when regional governments across Sumatra printed their own paper to keep local economies functioning as central authority collapsed and re-formed repeatedly. Palembang, sitting atop South Sumatra's oil infrastructure, was a particular focus of Dutch military interest in 1947–49, which makes the administrative continuity implied by a locally printed regional note all the more striking.
Locally produced emergency issues of this period are notoriously fragile. The paper quality was whatever was available.