Catalog
50 Rupiah
| Issuer | Pemerintah Daerah Palembang (Regional Government of Palembang) |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | RUPIAH REPUBLIK INDONESIA PALEMBANG 50 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain off-white paper with visible fold lines and minor soiling consistent with circulation. No design elements, inscriptions, or security features are present on this side. |
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One of the more unusual survival stories in Indonesian emergency currency: the Pemerintah Daerah Palembang issued these notes during the Dutch military actions — what the Netherlands called "police actions" — when regional governments across Sumatra printed their own paper to keep local economies functioning as central authority collapsed and re-formed repeatedly. Palembang, sitting atop South Sumatra's oil infrastructure, was a particular focus of Dutch military interest in 1947–49, which makes the administrative continuity implied by a locally printed regional note all the more striking.
Locally produced emergency issues of this period are notoriously fragile. The paper quality was whatever was available.