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50 Rupiah
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1964 |
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| Size | 151 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK INDONESIA LIMA PULUH RUPIAH 1964 GUBERNUR DIREKTUR JUNALIES DEL. PN. PERTJETAKAN KEBAJORAN IMP. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 M. SADJIROEN DEL. PN. PERTJETAKAN KEBAJORAN IMP. |
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By 1964, Bank Indonesia was printing its own notes domestically through Percetakan Kebayoran rather than contracting abroad — a deliberate policy shift away from the Dutch and British printers that had handled Indonesian currency in the early independence years. Percetakan Kebayoran operated out of Jakarta from 1952 until 1971, when it was absorbed into the successor state printing works.
The note was rendered obsolete rapidly. Indonesia's catastrophic hyperinflation of the mid-1960s, driven by Sukarno-era deficit financing, eroded purchasing power so severely that a full redenomination followed in 1965 — one new Rupiah replacing 1,000 old ones.