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1.000 Roepiah Djepang (Japanese Rupiah)
| Issuer | Kas Negara di Bengkoeloe (Central Treasury of Bengkoeloe) |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Value | 1.000 Roepiah Djepang |
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| Protection type | Stamp |
| Protection description | Red oval official stamp on obverse; blue oval control stamp applied over the central denomination on reverse |
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This note belongs to a short-lived class of emergency Republican currency issued during the Indonesian National Revolution, when the newly proclaimed Republic of Indonesia lacked any functioning central mint or printing infrastructure. The Bengkoeloe (Bengkulu) treasury produced these notes locally using captured Japanese occupation currency as the base — the "Djepang" in the name refers explicitly to that Japanese-era rupiah, overprinted or stamped to assert Republican authority rather than newly printed from scratch.
The stamp was the security feature and the political statement simultaneously. Without it, the note was enemy scrip. With it, a claim of sovereignty backed by nothing more durable than ink and revolutionary momentum.