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100 Rupiah Djepang Japanese Rupiah
| Issuer | Dewan Pertahanan Daerah Palembang (Regional Defense Council of Palembang) |
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| Year | 1947 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Mandat D(ewan) P(ertahanan) D(aerah) P(alembang), ( 100 ) Seratus Rupiah, 1-8-1947 (Translation: Mandate board of defense district of Palembang, 100 Rupiah, 1-8-1947) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream field enclosed by a green geometric guilloche border with denomination numerals '100' in green at each corner. The central vignette consists of a simple rectangular architectural outline in green, with the denomination legend printed in bold capital lettering across the centre. |
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This note was issued not by a national authority but by a regional defense council — one of dozens of ad hoc bodies that emerged across Sumatra during the Indonesian National Revolution, when the Dutch were attempting to reassert colonial control and central Republican institutions had limited reach beyond Java. Palembang, as a major oil-producing center, was a particular flashpoint; the city had seen heavy fighting in early 1947.
The "Djepang" designation in the name refers to the Japanese-occupation rupiah still circulating as the dominant paper currency in the region — this note was denominated and valued relative to that wartime scrip, not the Republican rupiah being established elsewhere. Local printings of this type are typically crude, produced under duress with whatever materials were at hand.