5000 Rupees Maluku Selatan

Maluku Selatan — the South Moluccas — declared independence from Indonesia in April 1950, a rebellion suppressed within months by the Indonesian army. The Republic of the South Moluccas never achieved international recognition, but its cause persisted for decades among the Moluccan diaspora in the Netherlands, culminating in the 1975 train hijacking near Beilen. This commemorative was issued as part of Bank Indonesia's ongoing provincial series, which has drawn quiet criticism for memorializing a region whose mid-century political history remains genuinely unresolved.