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1 Rupiah 'Sudirman' issue
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Value | 1 Rupiah |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of General Sudirman in military uniform occupies the left portion of the note, rendered in intaglio against a fine guilloche underprint in red and violet. The centre carries the denomination 'SATU RUPIAH' and date '1968' in large letterpress text, flanked below by two facsimile signatures above the titles 'GUBERNUR' and 'DIREKTUR'. To the right, an elaborate ornamental panel encloses the Indonesian coat of arms within an intricate floral guilloche border, with the numeral '1' repeated in the lower corners. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Percetakan Kebayoran was Indonesia's primary domestic security printer through the 1950s and 1960s, and its output was technically modest by international standards — adequate for small denominations but rarely distinguished. This 1 Rupiah belongs to a period when Bank Indonesia was printing fractional notes largely because coin shortages made small-change transactions impossible in daily commerce.
General Sudirman, who commanded Indonesian forces during the 1945–1949 independence struggle while suffering advanced tuberculosis, appeared on several low-denomination notes of this period. Dying in 1950, he became the revolution's most potent military symbol precisely because he never held political office.