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  • 500 Rupiah 2003-2008, KM# 67, Indonesia
  • 500 Rupiah 2003-2008, KM# 67, Indonesia
Obverse

Depicts the national emblem of Indonesia. Date and legend below.

The national emblem of Indonesia is called Garuda Pancasila. The main part of Indonesian national emblem is the Garuda with a heraldic shield on its chest and a scroll gripped by its legs. The shield's five emblems (star, chain, banyan tree, bull and Rice and cotton) represent Pancasila, the five principles of Indonesia's national ideology. The Garuda claws gripping a white ribbon scroll inscribed with the national motto "Unity in Diversity".

The Garuda is the mythical golden eagle, common to both Hindu and Buddhist mythology. The Garuda was a chimera, having the wings, beak, and feet of the golden eagle, but a man's arms and trunk. The use of the Garuda in Indonesia's coat-of-arms invokes the pre-colonial Hindu kingdoms that spanned across the archipelago, from which the present-day Republic of Indonesia is understood to be descended.

Garuda Pancasila was designed by Sultan Hamid II from Pontianak, supervised by Sukarno, and was adopted as the national emblem on 11 February 1950. The design was inspired by Javan hawk-eagle (Nisaetus bartelsi), an endangered raptor endemic to the mountainous forest regions of Java.

BHINNEKA TUNGGAL IKA
2003
BANK INDONESIA

Reverse

Jasmine flower, flower local name above and value below.

Jasminum sambac (Arabian jasmine or Sambac jasmine) is a species of jasmine native to a small region in the eastern Himalayas in Bhutan and neighbouring Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. It is cultivated in many places, especially across much of South and Southeast Asia. It is naturalised in many scattered locales: Mauritius, Madagascar, the Maldives, Cambodia, Indonesia, Christmas Island, Chiapas, Central America, southern Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles.

Jasminum sambac is the national flower, adopted in 1990. It goes by the name "melati putih" and is the most important flower in wedding ceremonies for ethnic Indonesians, especially on the island of Java.

BUNGA MELATI
500
RUPIAH

Edge

500 Rupiah

KM# 67 Schön# 53
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Characteristics
Material Aluminium
Weight 3.1 g
Diameter 27.2 mm
Thickness 2.5 mm
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Perum Peruri

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