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Counterfeit Money

Hitting the Plastic High Notes

Tuesday, April 23, 2002

Forgers are now able to copy the high-tech Rp100,000 note. Authorities don't seem to know how they managed it.

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While counterfeiting banknotes has always been a problem, authorities are alarmed that they have now seen fakes of the Rp100,000 Soekarno-Hatta banknotes made from a high-technology polymer thought to be far more difficult to reproduce than traditional paper currency.

Last week, police apprehended a group of counterfeiters at Cipulir, Kebayoran Lama in South Jakarta. The man accused of masterminding the operation, Dadang Ruhiyat, confessed

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