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New Banknotes Set to Enter Circulation Next Week

New Banknotes Set to Enter Circulation Next WeekiJakarta. Bank Indonesia will 
start on Monday (19/12) to distribute new banknotes and coins with improved 
security features aimed at preventing counterfeiting.

"The current [notes and coins] are still valid. Bank Indonesia will be 
gradually announcing which of them, issued in which years, will be removed from 
circulation," Suhaedi, money management director at the central bank, said in a 
statement on Thursday.

He said new banknotes have enhanced security features, such as color shifting 
metallic foil security patches, latent images and tactile patterns.

With the color shifting feature, a banknote will have different colors when 
observed from different angles. Latent images, when viewed through a special 
filter, will show the logo of Bank Indonesia. Tactile marks will help visually 
impaired people to identify the notes.

Bank Indonesia earlier announced that the new Rp 50,000, Rp 20,000, Rp 10,000, 
Rp 2,000 and Rp 1,000 bills will feature Indonesian national heroes, such as I 
Gusti Ngurah Rai and Cut Meutia, who were not present on the old banknotes.

Faces of the country's founding fathers Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta will remain 
on the Rp 100,000 notes

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