Catalog
100 000 Rupiah
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 2004-2011 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK INDONESIA SERATUS RIBU RUPIAH DEWAN GUBERNUR DR. IR. SOEKARNO DR. H. MOHAMMAD HATTA (Translation: ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND RUPIAH THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS) |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the Gedung Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat (People's Consultative Assembly building) in Jakarta, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint with a stylised map of the Indonesian archipelago at upper right. The legal tender clause in Bahasa Indonesia runs across the lower portion of the note, accompanied by formal inscriptions identifying the institution and denomination value. |
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P#146 sits at an interesting moment in Indonesian monetary history — the 100,000 rupiah was the highest denomination in circulation throughout this period, a position it has held almost continuously since its first introduction in 1999. The note was printed domestically by Perum Peruri, the state-owned security printing enterprise established in 1971, which by the mid-2000s had developed sufficient capacity to produce high-denomination currency without outsourcing to foreign printers — a deliberate policy shift from the Suharto-era reliance on overseas contractors.
The 2004 series replaced an earlier design introduced shortly after the catastrophic 1997–98 Asian financial crisis, when hyperinflationary pressure had made the 100,000 denomination a practical necessity rather than an exceptional denomination.