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10 000 Rupiah
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Value | 10 000 Rupiah (10 000 IDR) |
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| Reverse description | The right portion of the reverse is occupied by a detailed intaglio vignette of the Prambanan Hindu temple complex, rendered against a lightly sketched horizon with surrounding vegetation. The left field carries a large denomination numeral within a dark oval cartouche set against fine multicolour guilloche rosette work in gold, rose, and green tones, with the serial number appearing in two positions. A bold letterpress legend runs along the lower border, and an anti-counterfeiting warning text is printed in small type beneath it. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Perum Peruri — the state security printing works established in 1971 — had by 1979 taken full control of Indonesian banknote production, ending the country's earlier dependence on foreign printers like Thomas De La Rue and Joh. Enschedé. This note belongs to that consolidation period, when the facility in Karawang was still building toward the production volumes and technical sophistication it would reach in the 1980s.
A print run of just over twelve million is modest for a high-denomination note in an economy Indonesia's size. The 1970s saw persistent inflationary pressure following the oil boom, and 10,000 rupiah — worth roughly twenty-four US dollars at the time of issue — was not trivial spending money.