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5000 Rupiah Green front
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Value | 5000 Rupiah |
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| Reverse description | Green, yellow and orange multicolour print. Central landscape vignette of terraced rice fields receding toward a volcanic mountain, framed by ornate guilloche borders. Large oval watermark medallions at left and right, serial number printed in two positions across the top. |
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| Protection description | Buffalo head watermark |
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| Comments |
Indonesia's decision to print its own high-denomination notes domestically in the late 1950s was partly political — relying on foreign printers like De La Rue or Joh. Enschedé carried uncomfortable colonial overtones for a republic barely a decade old. Percetakan Kebayoran, the state printing works in South Jakarta, handled this series despite having far less sophisticated equipment than its European counterparts.
The result is visible in surviving examples: ink registration on Kebayoran-produced notes of this period is noticeably less consistent than on contemporaneous issues printed abroad, and the watermark security is rudimentary by international standards of the time. The 1958 series was superseded relatively quickly, partly because counterfeiting pressure exposed the limitations of the domestic printing infrastructure.