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500 Rupiah
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Reference(s) | P#87 |
| Obverse description | Portrait of President Soekarno in military uniform at left, with a vignette of sugarcane stalks behind him at left; the Garuda Pancasila coat of arms appears centrally in the upper field, flanked by floral vignettes at right and the Bank Indonesia monogram medallion at lower right. Two facsimile signatures appear below the coat of arms, attributed to the Pd. Gubernur and Direktur, with the denomination legend 'LIMA RATUS RUPIAH' in bold letterpress along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Two Javanese classical dancers in traditional costume and headdress, rendered in an intaglio-style vignette occupying the central field of the note. |
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| Comments |
Indonesia's 1960 series was produced through a split printing arrangement: De La Rue handled the intaglio work in London, while Pertjetakan Kebajoran completed the notes in Jakarta — an arrangement reflecting the Sukarno government's push toward domestic industrial participation without yet having the full technical infrastructure to print high-security currency independently. Kebayoran's role was genuine production, not merely overprinting.
The watermark remains the primary security feature, modest by international standards of the period but consistent with the series throughout.