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Did you know that the flag of USA and Indonesia shared a common ancestry?
The USA stars and stripes draws inspiration from the flag of British's East India Company. USA was a British colony before it gained independence.
The British EIC flag dates back to 17th century, back then it was known as "Jack Company's gridiron".
Dr Fryer, a british historian, referred in 1673 the red and white stripes as "the East-India striped Ancient", a banner often flown by native merchant vessels in medieval south east asia.
Majapahit was a Hindu-Buddhist empire based in Eastern Java, with territory encompassing modern day Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and parts of southern Thailand. The red and white stripes was the official banner of this ancient kingdom.
Indonesia's red and white flag draws inspiration from it's ancient predecessor. Indonesian naval jack also consists of 10 alternating red and white stripes.
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- sniper_nangkringLv 57 years agoFavorite Answer
did you know that in 1964 CIA provoking the Indonesian army to kill 500.000 civilian that has been *suspected* as PKI ? the CIA even giving fund support to general Suharto after the *cleansing* and encourage our government to spread propaganda how holy is that act. I dont want my country's flag to be compared with the country that had been shed so many blood in Indonesia, i dont hate the US citizen, im sure there are still good people there, but i do hate their foreign policy.
source:
www.thenation.com/article/178592/its-our-act-killing-too
history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v26/ch3