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500 Rupiah
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Size | 140 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vignette of a standing male figure beside the towering spadix of an Amorphophallus titanum (titan arum) in full bloom, rendered in intaglio against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The denomination LIMA RATUS RUPIAH is printed in large bold letterpress at centre, with the year 1982 and DIREKSI inscription below, flanked by two facsimile signatures above the titles GUBERNUR and DIREKTUR. The Garuda Pancasila national emblem appears in the upper right corner, with the issuer name BANK INDONESIA across the top. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK INDONESIA LIMA RATUS RUPIAH 1982 DIREKSI GUBERNUR - DIREKTUR SOERIPTO DEL. AMORPHOPHALLUS TITANUM PERUM PERCETAKAN UANG RI IMP. (Translation: BANK INDONESIA FIVE HUNDRED RUPIAH 1982 BOARD OF DIRECTORS GOVERNOR - DIRECTOR SOERIPTO DEL. AMORPHOPHALLUS TITANUM GOVERNMENT PRINTING OF REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA IMP.) |
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Perum Peruri — the state printing works established in 1971 — had by 1982 taken full control of Indonesian banknote production, ending the earlier dependence on foreign printers like De La Rue and Joh. Enschedé. This note is a product of that consolidated domestic capability, with Soeripto among the small cadre of Indonesian designers working entirely in-house.
The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature, a relatively spare specification for the denomination by early-1980s standards — reflecting budget constraints during a period when Indonesia's oil revenues, the backbone of Suharto-era state finances, had begun their post-1980 decline.