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500 Rupiah
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Reference(s) | P#123 |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK INDONESIA 1988 DIREKS GUBERNUR DIREKTUR CERVUS TIMORENSIS LIMA RATUS RUPIAH SOERIPTO DEL. PERUM PERCETAKAN UANG RI IMP. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the unprinted area to the right of centre on the obverse. |
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| Comments |
Perum Peruri — Perusahaan Umum Percetakan Uang Republik Indonesia — had been printing Indonesia's banknotes domestically since 1971, ending the country's long reliance on foreign security printers. This 1988 500 Rupiah belongs to a period when the state-owned facility in Karawang was still consolidating its production standards, and quality consistency across print runs from this era can vary noticeably.
The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature, a relatively modest specification for a denomination that would have seen heavy daily use in late-1980s urban Indonesia.