Flag of Indonesia
Two equal-width horizontal bands.
Current flag
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Indonesia
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 2:3 height: width
Flag design
Two equal-width horizontal bands.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 2
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Colours
- Red and white
Sources
- Proportion: Peraturan.go.id – Law No. 24 of 2009
Flag comparisons
Sang Merah Putih: Indonesia’s red and white
Indonesia’s flag has two equal horizontal bands, red above white. Known as Sang Merah Putih, or “the Red and White,” it uses colours with a long history in the archipelago; the red-and-white standard is also associated with the Majapahit period.
Indonesian nationalists used the colours before independence. The present flag was raised when independence was proclaimed in 1945, and national flag legislation now defines its form and use. Courage and purity are common colour interpretations, rather than the only meaning of the design.
Sources
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Indonesia
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Jakarta
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- ID
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- IDN
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 360
- Top-level domain
- .id
- Area
- 1,919,440 km²
- Population
- 285,721,236 (2025)
- Currency
- IDR
- Calling code
- +62
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Indonesia (1640–)
Images are ordered by the years listed in the collection. A listed year may not be the flag’s official adoption year.
About historical flags
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A flag's inclusion in a country's historical collection does not necessarily mean that the country was independent at the time or that the flag was its own national flag.
The years shown are based on historical records in the dataset and do not always indicate the date of official adoption. The collection is not exhaustive, and historical usage, territorial coverage, and interpretations may vary.
