Sunday, February 1, 2009

The Rupiah


So as of today the exchange rate is $1 to 113750 rph. Unfortunately that doesn't mean that I'm now a millionaire (although my account looks pretty good when I go to the ATM for once) but it does mean that the money here is fairly worthless. In fact the smallest unit that they use is the 200 rph coin. It's so worthless that many times instead of giving it to you as change they'll give you candy instead. At first I thought that the casher was just being nice or ripping me off, but it turns out that just how they roll here, and I think I like it.

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