Museum Bank Indonesia
Neo-Renaissance former central bank housing galleries of currency, monetary history and gold bullion.
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This guide to Museum Bank Indonesia in Jakarta stops at the cases of ORI, the first banknotes of the independent republic, and asks why their printed date and signature sit so oddly against the moment they were spent. It follows the two painters who drew them, the glass negatives made at Balai Pustaka, and a Salemba press working dawn to night in nineteen forty-six. Stand by the early independence notes in the money galleries while you listen.
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