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500 Rupiah Arts and crafts
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Currency | Rupiah (1950-1965) |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress print in brown tones. The central vignette presents a traditional Indonesian hut surrounded by trees within a decorative frame. Traditional geometric and floral border patterns run along both lateral margins, with the watermark window positioned at left and a text panel at the lower portion of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | 500 500 SADJIROEN DEL. JUNALIES DEL. P.T. PERTJETAKAN KEBAJORAN IMP. |
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Percetakan Kebayoran was one of the few printing facilities in the postwar developing world capable of producing currency entirely in-house — design, engraving, and press work all domestically sourced. For Indonesia, then barely a decade out from the independence declaration of 1945 and still consolidating national institutions, printing its own banknotes locally carried real political weight. This note's separate designer credits for obverse and reverse — Junalies and Sadjiroen — are an unusual detail, suggesting a deliberate division of artistic labor rather than a single studio commission.
The 1958 series was issued amid chronic inflation that would only worsen through the early 1960s, ultimately forcing the Sanering monetary reform of 1959, which lopped three zeros off all denominations.