Counterfeit money

Counterfeit money

Our company has just collected cash from a particular foreign
bank in Jakarta, and to our surprise, we found the following
printed on the paper band used to bundle the banknotes:

"Please check again the banknotes you have received.
The bank shall not accept any complaint about the number and/or
the originality of these banknotes after you leave the bank."

What I wish to raise here is that not all bank customers have
the expertise to see/detect whether or not a banknote is
original. From the statement above, I can gather that even
counterfeit banknotes can escape the bank's detector, therefore
putting a bank customer in a weak position to make any claim to
the bank, while it is the bank itself which has put the banknotes
in bundles. In the case of counterfeit money from an ATM, the one
to be held responsible must be the bank officer authorized to put
the money into the ATM box.

Concerning the above statement, we would, once again, like to
be informed about the extent of the responsibility that the bank
assumes in preventing or minimizing the circulation of
counterfeit money. It is interesting to note that this statement
may be interpreted as the bank's admission to the presence of
counterfeit banknotes in the bundles of banknotes it releases.

I hope that Bank Indonesia will give its response to this
matter and that the Indonesian Consumers Foundation will lend a
hand in this respect.

AGNES HAN

Jakarta