Flag of indonesia

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Merah Putih
Flag of Indonesia.svg
Vexillological symbol : National flag on land and at sea?
Aspect ratio: 2: 3
Officially accepted: August 17, 1945

The flag of Indonesia was officially introduced on August 17, 1945. In Indonesia she is called Merah Putih (completely Sang Saka Merah Putih ), which simply means “red-white” (completely “the honorable red-white” ).

description

The national flag is in accordance with Article 35 of the 1945 Constitution of two equal horizontal stripes: red at the top and bottom do. The aspect ratio is two to three.

history

The ruler of Molo with the Dutch tricolor (upside down) during the colonial period
The flag of Indonesia is hoisted on August 17, 1945 when independence is proclaimed

The various empires of the Malay Archipelago had numerous flags. Some of them are still used today in the traditional ruling houses of the empires in Indonesia. During the colonial era in the former was the Dutch East Indies , the flag of the Netherlands used. The Dutch East India Company also showed its emblem in the Dutch tricolor.

The colors go back to a flag of Prince Jayakatong (1293), the founder of the Majapahit Kingdom , which reached its height in the 14th century. The flag showed nine alternating red and white stripes and is used today as a jack of the Indonesian Navy, where it is called Ular-ular Perang ( war snakes ). In 1922, Indonesian students in the Netherlands adopted it as a symbol of the Indonesian Cooperative . In 1928 the Indonesian National Party first set the red and white flag on Java . Legend has it that when the blue stripe was removed from the flag of the Netherlands, the symbolic attempt to separate the aristocratic blue blood from the red blood of the people and white purity. Although this legend has not been substantiated, the early Indonesian national flags could in fact have been created by severing the blue stripe of Dutch flags, provided they survived the Japanese occupation in World War II .

When Indonesia declared itself independent on August 17, 1945 after World War II, the red and white flag was adopted as the new national flag and placed in front of the Presidential Palace in Jakarta . Allegedly she sewed Fatmawati , President Sukarno's wife, herself. The original flag ( bendera pusaka ) was used until August 17, 1968 and then replaced by a new one made of Indonesian silk. The Bendera pusaka is on display today in the Independence Room of the National Monument .

More flags of Indonesia

Flags of the state and organizations

The provinces of Indonesia use single-color flags with the province emblem in the center. There are other flags for cities, the military, universities and political parties, for example.

  • Standard of the President

  • Jack of the Indonesian Navy

Flags of the separatist movements

The Organization for a Free Papua (OPM) uses the morning star flag as a symbol of the independence movement of West Papua . The Republic of the South Moluccas , which tried to gain independence from Indonesia between 1950 and 1955, also carried its own flag, which was first set on May 2, 1950. Likewise the independence movement in Aceh .

  • Morning star flag of the OPM (West Papua)

  • Historic flag? Republic of the South Moluccas

  • Historic flag? Aceh independence movement

  • Historic flag? Separatists in Sulawesi

  • Separatists in Riau (Sumatra)

Others

Many other flags show the same color arrangement, sometimes with different aspect ratios, such as the national flag of Monaco or the regional flags of Hesse , Salzburg , Solothurn , Vorarlberg and Vienna . The flag of Singapore also has a crescent moon and five white stars in the red stripe. In order to avoid confusion with the neighboring state, Singapore uses completely different flag designs for its sea ​​flags .

Web links

Commons : Flags of Indonesia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Smith / Neubecker: Coats of arms and flags of all nations. Munich 1981, ISBN 3-87045-183-1 .
  2. ^ A b Flags of the World - Indonesia
  3. ↑ Description of the national flag ( Memento of February 22, 1999 in the Internet Archive ) (English)