Bank Indonesia
central bank of the Republic of Indonesia
Bank Indonesia (BI; lit. 'Bank of Indonesia') is the central bank of the Republic of Indonesia. It replaced the Bank of Java in 1953, which had been created in 1828 to serve the financial needs of the Dutch East Indies.
History
Bank of Java
King William I of the Netherlands granted the right to create a private bank in the Indies in 1826, which was named De Javasche Bank. It was founded on 24 January 1828 and later became the bank of issue of the Dutch East Indies. The bank regulated and issued the Netherlands Indies gulden.
In 1881, an office of the Bank of Java was opened in Amsterdam. Later followed the opening of an office in New York. By 1930 the bank owned sixteen office branches in the Dutch East Indies: Bandung, Cirebon, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Surakarta, Surabaya, Malang, Kediri, Banda Aceh, Medan, Padang, Palembang, Banjarmasin, Pontianak, Makassar, and Manado. Almost all buildings were designed by the Amsterdam architect Eduard Cuypers (1859–1927) in collaboration with M. J. Hulswit (1862–1921) and A. A. Fermont (1882–1967) in Batavia.
The Bank of Java was operated as a private bank and individuals as well as industries etc.
“Bank Indonesia” enters the record as central bank of the Republic of Indonesia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bank, Indonesia and central can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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