Catalog
2,50 Rupiah
| Issuer | Dewan Pertahanan Daerah Kedu (Kedu Regional Defense Council), Magelang, Central Java |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Value | 2,50 Rupiah |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper bon (voucher) enclosed within a simple rectangular border. The word BON appears in large bold letters at the top centre, with the denomination R 2,50 in bold at the right and the written value (DUA SETENGAH RUPIJAH) centred below. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion, attributed to the Sekretaris at left and the Ketua of Dewan Pertahanan Daerah Kedu at right, with the date and place of issue — Magelang, 1 Agustus 1948 — inscribed at the bottom left. A handwritten serial number appears in red at the upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CU BON SEHARGA R 2,50 (DUA SETENGAH RUPIJAH) Sekretaris, Dewan Pertahanan Daerah Kedu Ketua. Magelang, 1 Agustus 1948 |
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The Dewan Pertahanan Daerah Kedu was one of dozens of regional military and civil defense bodies that issued emergency currency during the Indonesian National Revolution, when the newly proclaimed republic lacked a functioning central monetary system capable of supplying occupied or contested territories. Magelang, the issuing town, sits in the Kedu Plain and saw significant Dutch military pressure during the late 1940s, making reliable currency supply a genuine operational problem rather than a bureaucratic exercise.
The fractional 2½ Rupiah denomination — carrying the Dutch-era "duiten" logic into the republican period — points to small-transaction necessity. Locally printed, almost certainly on whatever press and stock was available.