understand the exchange rate of indonesian currency
if you came first to indonesia the first thing you must understand about indonesian currency. type of indonesian currency. 100.00 200.00 500.00 1.000.00 2.000.00 5.000.00 10.000.00 20.000.00 50.000.00 100.000.00 ======================================================================== Indonesia Currency is called Rupiah (IDR; symbol Rp), the largest banknote is Rp 100,000, which may only about US$10 but is still inconveniently large for most purchases. Next in the series are Rp 50,000, Rp 20,000, Rp 10,000, Rp 5,000, Rp 2,000 and finally Rp 1,000. Bill size is the easiest way to distinguish them, as the designs — all pale pastel shades of yellow, green and brown — are confusingly similar and the smaller bills in particular are often filthy and mangled. (The new 2004-2005 series of notes has, however, corrected this to some extent.) A chronic shortage of small change — it's not unusual to get a few pieces of candy back instead of coins — has been to some exten...