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Wijktoko Tjideng was the internal camp store operating within the Tjideng internment camp in Batavia, where the Japanese military confined Dutch and other Allied civilian women and children from 1942 onward. The camp scrip issued there functioned as a controlled internal currency — inmates could not hold Dutch colonial guilders, so the Japanese administration permitted these tokens of exchange to manage whatever limited commerce was allowed within the wire.

Tjideng became notorious for extreme overcrowding and brutal conditions under camp commandant Kenichi Sonei. Notes from this camp are among the rarest categories of Second World War civilian internment scrip — survival rates were low, and few prisoners had reason or means to preserve paper through years of deprivation and the chaos of liberation in August 1945.