Uang Kembalian - Change Money

Sebenernya udah sering mikir – lebih tepatnya sering bingung – tentang uang kembalian yang kita dapet waktu kita blanja di supermarket, swalayan ato minimarket. Misal yang harusnya kita dapet kembalian Rp 150,- tapi karena uang Rp 50,- sekarang udah gak ada, jadi kita cuma dapet Rp 100,- atau ditambah permen. Kalo dipikir-pikir emang aneh. Lah, permen kan bukan uang. Lah, kalo misalnya total blanja kita Rp 1.275,- tapi dibulatkan jadi Rp 1.300,- tapi kalo total harga kita Rp 1.225,- gak dibulatkan ke bawah jadi Rp 1.200,- tapi kita tetep harus bayar Rp 1.300,- jadi tiap blanja kita selalu bayar lebih dong. Well, emang sih, cuman 25, 50, 75 rupiah, tapi kalo dikalikan jumlah pembeli yang blanja. Tapi misalnya dibalik, dibulatkan ke nilai yang menguntungkan pembeli, kita jadi kurang dong bayarnya? Hayooo...

I’ve been wondering – or confusing – about change money system in Indonesia when we shop in supermarket, grocery, or mini market. For example, I should have IDR 150 as change money. But, since it is very difficult now to find IDR 50, so I only get IDR 100 as change money, or IDR 100 + 1 candy. It is strange since we all know that candy is not money. So, everybody who shops in supermarket will have to pay more money than they should be. It is only IDR 25, 50 or 75 per person, but there are so many person shops in supermarket. In other hand, if they reduce the total payment – for example if I should pay IDR 1.225, but they reduce it so I only have to pay IDR 1.200, so they will loss IDR 25, multiplied everybody who shops there.

Ada juga swalayan yang kekurangan pengembalian dialihkan untuk sumbangan amal, ditulis di nota pembayarannya. Err, bukanny sumbangan dan amal itu tergantung niatnya? Emang ada tulisannya di nota, tapi kasirnya gak bilang ke pembeli. Kali aja pembelinya gak kepengen nyumbang. Hayooo....

There are also some supermarkets that give the extra payment for charity. It is written in the bill, but sometimes, the cashiers do not tell the buyer about it. Err, what if the buyers do not want to give charity donation?

Pernah nanya ke kasir di salah satu minimarket yang banyak banget franchise nya itu loh... yang ditanya cuma mesam mesem kecut katanya, habis harganya pecahannya kaya gitu (ada 25, 50, 75 rupiahnya). Hemm.. jadi mikir lagi. Udah jelas-jelas seluruh warga negara Indonesia udah tau kalo uang 25, sama 50 rupiah itu udah susah banget dicari - kecuali buat yang mau nikah dan pengen mas kawinnya pake jumlah uang yang mencapai satuan terkecil, kayaknya gak pada mau susah-susah nyari uang receh senilai 25 dan 50 rupiah deh – lah, kok yang menetapkan harga-harga di swalayan, supermarket dan minimarket itu kok ya pake angka-angka yang susah, kenapa sih gak sekalian dikasi harga yang bulat? Well, mungkin ada itung-itungan yang njelimet melibatkan ongkos produksi, distribusi, dll dll, tapi kok yaaa... daripada ada salah satu pihak yang nggrundel...

I asked to the cashier about it one day, she only gave me a smile and said, it is because the price of the things that contain certain values like IDR 25, 50, 75 which has been very difficult to find nowadays. So I think, since everybody in Indonesia know that there are no more money in that values, why don’t they adjust the price, so there only will be IDR 1.200, without ‘certain values’ that is difficult to find? Well, maybe they have to consider about production cost, distribution, and others, I don’t know but isn’t it will be much easier?

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