Flag of Indonesia

What the flag means

• 🔴Red — courage and the body
• ⚪White — purity and the spirit

Design set by: ⁨Undang-Undang Republik Indonesia Nomor 24 Tahun 2009 tentang Bendera, Bahasa, dan Lambang Negara, serta Lagu Kebangsaan, Pasal 4⁩ · Adopted 1945

Highlights

• 🏝️ Bali and over 17,000 islands
• 🌋 Volcanoes and tropical nature
• 🐠 World-class diving spots
• 🍢 Satay and flavorful street food
• 🎭 Batik and shadow puppetry

Quick facts

Region

Asia · South-Eastern Asia

Population

285,721,236 people (2025)

Area

1,904,569 km²

Capital

Jakarta

Languages

Indonesian, Javanese

Currency

Indonesian rupiah (IDR)

Organizations

United Nations, ASEAN

Neighboring countries

• Malaysia
• Papua New Guinea
• Timor-Leste

Land neighbors, approximated from simplified map outlines.

Symbols in History (1)

Coats of arms and emblems whose historic seat lies within this country’s present-day territory.

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  Surya Majapahit (Sun of Majapahit)

  Java, Indonesia — Majapahit Empire · Emblem

  OriginThis solar motif turns up again and again in the ruins of Majapahit, the Hindu-Buddhist kingdom that held eastern Java and the sea routes of the archipelago from the 13th to the 16th century. It was carved above all into shrine ceilings and stone slabs, and because it recurs from site to site it came to stand for the kingdom itself. The colourful version known today is a later drawing; what survives in the ruins is uncoloured stone relief.

  DescriptionEight golden rays, layered like feathers, reach out to the eight directions, and where each of them springs from the disc a red stone is set — eight stones ringing it. Inside them a ring is cut into eight compartments — black at the top, then clockwise blue, white, pink, red, orange, yellow and green — and in every compartment a golden deity sits turned toward its own quarter of the world. At the hub, on a violet disc before a rainbow halo, sits Shiva, to whom the centre belongs. Sun, eight directions and centre are stacked into one image: the whole cosmos held in a single order.

  Image source: Wikimedia Commons — Surya Majapahit.svg · Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · RaphaelQS