Example sentences for: rupiah

How can you use “rupiah” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Sanskrit for `wrought silver' is the basis for rupee (India, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka), rupiah (Indonesia), and rufiyaa (Maldives).

  • The Age of Melbourne reported that, according to an "internal document prepared by a major American investment bank, which was circulating in the financial community," the rupiah is now a " 'gaping black hole, there is no alternative other than the probably violent overthrow of the Government [of President Suharto].

  • But amid the tales of rupiah and ringgit one also hears surprisingly old-fashioned references--to Charles Kindleberger's classic 1978 book Manias, Panics, and Crashes , and even to Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street (1873).

  • In the Far East and the Pacific region, newspapers gave prominence to the failure of the latest International Monetary Fund rescue package to restore faith in the economy of Indonesia, where the national currency, the rupiah, had just fallen in value by another 30 percent.

  • He also told the paper that the International Monetary Fund will need to review its Indonesia aid program, which had been drawn up on the assumption of an exchange rate of one U.S. dollar to 6,000 rupiahs; the rupiah has since fallen to a rate of one U.S. dollar to 13,800 rupiahs.


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