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Most of them wanted to leave the company, but would have to pay one million rupiah [U. S. $122] to do so.

At hotels, porters ask for a few hundred rupiah for each bag. While most taxi drivers will automatically round up to the next 500 rupiah.

However, acting president Rupiah Banda gradually gained ground as results began to come in from rural areas where his support is greatest.

It called for the election to be completed in one round to save the 4 trillion rupiah ($400m) cost of the scheduled run-off in September.

Acting President Rupiah Banda, who was Mr. Mwanawasa's vice-president, was the candidate of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy.

Mr Ravallion and his team converted rupees, pesos and rupiah into a common unit of purchasing power.

Other currencies to watch out for include the Malaysian ringgit, Indonesian rupiah and Korean won, all at elevated levels themselves.

This was both insurance against another run on the rupiah and part of China's experiment with using the yuan as an international currency.

The rupiah is a freely convertible currency, but trades at a penalty due to continued high inflation.

Sharp declines in their exchange rates increased the burden of paying back debts -- measured in baht, rupiah and won.

The US dollar hit one-year lows against regional currencies, including the South Korean won, the Indian rupee and the Indonesian rupiah.

Indonesia's rupiah trillionaires have so much money that it's difficult to count it.

The Indonesia rupiah is at a three-year high.

A front-page banner headline earlier this month praised the country's president, Rupiah Banda, for "doing a good job" .

One ambassador in Malaysia, a former police chief, allegedly pocketed about 2 billion rupiah from unauthorised visa surcharges.

The currency, the rupiah , also recovered against the US dollar.

Rupiah Banda, Zambia's president, has been careful to avoid alienating China.

Rupiah (Rp) is the monetary unit of Indonesia (currency code IDR).

At its low point the Indonesian rupiah had fallen by 86% against the dollar.

The rupiah's exchange rate is also important to the health of the Indonesian economy.

It cost a whopping 5 trillion rupiah ($568m), paid for by the provincial government.

The Indonesian rupiah was introduced on 2 November 1949 as the new national currency.

In the Asian crisis of 1997-98, that meant a collapse of the Thai baht, the Indonesian rupiah and others.

In July 1997, when Thailand floated the baht, Indonesia's monetary authorities widened the rupiah trading band from 8% to 12%.

At moderately priced restaurants, 5, 000 rupiah should do it. If the service is superb, tack on an extra 1, 000 or so.

Even Mr Zudianto is spending 5 billion rupiah on the local Yogyakarta team, though he draws the line at buying expensive foreign players.

Within six weeks of the baht's devaluation, the Indonesian rupiah was in freefall, going from 2, 300 to the dollar to well over 10, 000.

It is demanding 31 billion rupiah ($3. 6m) in back taxes for the past two years' worth of imports.

The Malaysian ringgit has climbed almost 11 per cent, the Philippine peso has risen 6 per cent, and the Indonesian rupiah is up 5 per cent.

The drop in the value of the rupiah means it's cheaper to buy Indonesian companies.

These workers earn about 20, 000 rupiah per day.

That is still a far cry from the cataclysm of 1998, when the rupiah collapsed and the economy shrank by 13. 1%.

"THE people of Zambia have spoken and we must all listen, " a defeated President Rupiah Banda intoned on September 23rd.

Daniel Ginting, a fruit vendor, already has a 100m rupiah loan charging 2. 6% a month.