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5 Rupiah
| Issuer | Pemerintah Revolusioner Republik Indonesia (Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia) |
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| Year | 1959 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | PEMERINTAH REVOLUSIONER REPUBLIK INDONESIA MEMBAJAR KEPADA PEMEGANG SURAT INI LIMA RUPIAH MENTERI KEUANGAN P.R.R.I. SEPTEMBER 1959 |
| Reverse description | Plain blue reverse with a central diamond-shaped guilloche panel flanked by the numeral '5' in ornamental cartouches at left and right. The acronym 'PRRI' is printed in a rectangular frame at the top centre. A serial number and a circular control stamp of the Pemerintah Revolusioner are handstamped across the central field. |
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The Pemerintah Revolusioner Republik Indonesia — better known by its acronym PRRI — was a rebel counter-government proclaimed in February 1958 from Padang, West Sumatra, in direct opposition to Sukarno's Jakarta administration. It issued its own currency as a straightforward assertion of administrative legitimacy over the territories it controlled, primarily in Sumatra and parts of Sulawesi.
The rebellion had effectively collapsed by mid-1958 after military operations, which makes a 1959-dated issue an outlier — likely printed in anticipation of a territorial hold that never materialized, or circulated within shrinking pockets of resistance in the outer islands.