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5000 Rupiah
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1957 |
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| Value | 5000 Rupiah |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK INDONESIA 5000 LIMA RIBU RUPIAH 5000 5000 |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 1957 series was among the earliest issues produced after Indonesia's central bank assumed full control of currency operations following the nationalization of De Javasche Bank in 1953. The transition brought considerable pressure to establish a distinctly Indonesian visual identity for paper money, distancing the new republic from its colonial monetary past.
Pick 54 is notably scarcer than lower denominations of the same series. High-value notes from this period were frequently recalled and destroyed during the 1959 currency reform, when President Sukarno's government slashed the face value of notes above 500 Rupiah by 90 percent — an effective confiscation that wiped out hoarded reserves and devastated private savings.