Turns Banknote Not Made From Paper ?
Money, money in the traditional economics is defined as any means of exchange that is acceptable in general. A medium of exchange that can be any object that can be accepted by everyone in the community in the process of exchange of goods and services. The existence of money facilitate transactions that take place in society.
In everyday life we recognize two types of currency, ie banknotes and coins. Although the name is a banknote, but it turns out banknotes are not made of paper. Have you ever wondered why paper money is not easily tangled and damaged when exposed to water such as the paper in general?
Paper money is actually made of cotton material. Because money withdrawn must withstand many times and cotton have the trait. Even banknotes in circulation today is a material made of cotton imported from overseas such as England, France, Holland, and Germany.
Cotton is processed so as to withstand approximately 3500 times called double bends or folds. Paper money is also designed so as not memendar under ultraviolet light.
Money Printing Public Company of the Republic of Indonesia (PERURI) special printing money circulating in Indonesia, requires the physical properties of the raw material of paper money, such as good tensile index and high tear resistance. To this day Indonesia still relies on cotton from abroad to make paper money.
