In Reply to: currency confusion posted by spartakle on Monday, 11. January 2010 at 03:50 Bali Time:
50,000 rupiah is a lot of money to many Indonesians and they can buy many things for uner 1000 rupiah.
I agree that 2 zeros are pointless, but this would cause more confusion to remove.
Maybe the confusion lies in that the 10,000 and the 100,000 are similar colours?