Evidence coverage: 1817–1946. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Before the 1942 occupation, the Netherlands Indies used a guilder currency issued by its government and De Javasche Bank, linked to but distinct from the Netherlands currency.
Sources and qualifications →Bank Indonesia describes an 1817 guilder issue replacing Ropij Jawa. This establishes a monetary reform context; conversion of outstanding rupee-denominated obligations has not been verified here.
Sources and qualifications →Article 2 of the monetary ordinance of 14 January 1817 requires all accounts with the government to be stated in Indies guilders. It reckons an Indies guilder as 120 duits or 30 Indies stuivers, and separately converts payments fixed in Netherlands guilders at 100 duits each. This is an account rule, not merely a description of a coin.
Sources and qualifications →Goldberg’s instructions discuss the transfer of rupee accounts, the taking over of government offices and the collection of tax arrears when guilder reckoning is introduced. Read with the implemented 1817 account ordinance, they support fiscal account succession. They do not establish every private contract rate or settle whether all regional usages crossed the same identity boundary.
Sources and qualifications →The IMF’s contemporary report describes the March 1950 reduction of Java Bank and Treasury currency and similar treatment of bank deposits, with exemptions for small balances. It corroborates a reform of monetary balances as well as notes, but does not supply the full ORI and regional-account conversion schedules.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Before the 1942 occupation, the Netherlands Indies used a guilder currency issued by its government and De Javasche Bank, linked to but distinct from the Netherlands currency.
C2131Article 2 of the monetary ordinance of 14 January 1817 requires all accounts with the government to be stated in Indies guilders. It reckons an Indies guilder as 120 duits or 30 Indies stuivers, and separately converts payments fixed in Netherlands guilders at 100 duits each. This is an account rule, not merely a description of a coin.
C2148Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Before the 1942 occupation, the Netherlands Indies used a guilder currency issued by its government and De Javasche Bank, linked to but distinct from the Netherlands currency.
pp. 114–116,127–128; distinct prewar Indies currency, occupation money, bank deposits and ORI
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Bank Indonesia describes an 1817 guilder issue replacing Ropij Jawa. This establishes a monetary reform context; conversion of outstanding rupee-denominated obligations has not been verified here.
Sections Ropij Jawa; Uang Gulden Hindia Belanda; Uang Republik Indonesia Serikat dan Gunting Sjafruddin
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Article 4 of Law 19/1946 carried unpaid obligations incurred before 1 January 1943 into Republican money at one old legal rupiah to one ORI. Read with the Indies currency history, it supports a qualified colonial-account input at ORI’s introduction; it is not a claim that every old debt or region received the cash exchange rate.
25 October 1946; arts. 2–4, 6 and 8; PDF pp. 1–3; pp. 114–116,127–128; distinct prewar Indies currency, occupation money, bank deposits and ORI
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
25 October 1946; arts. 2–4, 6 and 8; PDF pp. 1–3; pp. 114–116,127–128; distinct prewar Indies currency, occupation money, bank deposits and ORI
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Article 2 of the monetary ordinance of 14 January 1817 requires all accounts with the government to be stated in Indies guilders. It reckons an Indies guilder as 120 duits or 30 Indies stuivers, and separately converts payments fixed in Netherlands guilders at 100 duits each. This is an account rule, not merely a description of a coin.
pp. 41–42: Goldberg’s instructions on transferring rupee books and tax arrears; p. 51: article 2 of the 14 January 1817 monetary ordinance
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Goldberg’s instructions discuss the transfer of rupee accounts, the taking over of government offices and the collection of tax arrears when guilder reckoning is introduced. Read with the implemented 1817 account ordinance, they support fiscal account succession. They do not establish every private contract rate or settle whether all regional usages crossed the same identity boundary.
pp. 41–42: Goldberg’s instructions on transferring rupee books and tax arrears; p. 51: article 2 of the 14 January 1817 monetary ordinance
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The IMF’s contemporary report describes the March 1950 reduction of Java Bank and Treasury currency and similar treatment of bank deposits, with exemptions for small balances. It corroborates a reform of monetary balances as well as notes, but does not supply the full ORI and regional-account conversion schedules.
Indonesia passage; printed p. 54: March 1950 reform, Java Bank/Treasury currency and deposits
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The 1817 ordinance requires government accounts in Indies guilders. The associated instructions explicitly address transferring rupee books, taking over offices and collecting tax arrears when guilder reckoning is introduced. This supports qualified fiscal succession from Java rupee accounting to Indies guilder accounting. The connection rests on account transmission, not an equal coin tariff, and does not assert a universal rate for all debts.
pp. 41–42: Goldberg’s instructions on transferring rupee books and tax arrears; p. 51: article 2 of the 14 January 1817 monetary ordinance
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Japanese occupation money entered use in 1942; in 1943 the authorities ordered prewar currency surrendered. Old Indies money was nevertheless hoarded while transactions increasingly used the depreciating occupation currency.
pp. 114–116,127–128; distinct prewar Indies currency, occupation money, bank deposits and ORI
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.