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20 Rupiah
| Issuer | Daerah Militer Istimewa Sumatera Selatan (South Sumatra Special Military Region) |
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| Year | 1949 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Olive-green letterpress print dominated by an elaborate guilloche border of interlocking wave and scroll patterns. A central rectangular text panel carries the legal tender clause in Indonesian. Terraced rice fields and a decorative urn vignette appear below the text panel, with the numeral '20' repeated at lower left and lower right within the border. |
| Reverse lettering | Tanda pembajaran ini dianggap sah sebagai "Uang kertas" seperti tersebut dalam pasal IX sampai XIII dari undang2 Presiden No.1 th. 1946 tentang peraturan hukum Pidana. 20 20 |
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The South Sumatra Special Military Region issued its own emergency currency during the Indonesian National Revolution — a period when Dutch military operations had severed normal supply lines and the fledgling Republic's central monetary authority in Java had limited reach over the outer islands. Regional military commanders in Sumatra were effectively functioning as autonomous administrative units, and currency issuance was one consequence of that fragmentation.
P#S171 is a guerrilla-period emission. The "S" prefix in the Pick catalog places it firmly in the local/revolutionary category, distinct from the official ORI series. Notes from this issuer are rarely encountered outside Indonesian collections.