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Regional Issues, In addition to the ‘national’ (but restricted in practice to the central republican enclave in Java) notes, the republican authorities, to discourage the circulation of Dutch money, instructed regional commanders in areas that the national money couldn’t reach, to issue their own money, to be unified after full independence. Sumatra. Sumatran notes are all primitive lacking security features printed on poor-quality paper. In most cases they have some kind of artwork. 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000 rupiah, Palembang Defense Council, South Sumatra, 1 August 1947.
