Hey Geograpeeps! Welcome back to Fan / Flag Friday, hope you liked the Indonesia episode. One thing
I wish I could have talked a little bit more about was kind of like how
Malaysians and Indonesian kind of like really annoy other, but they still kind of like each other
but they really know each other, and I wish I could have talked a little bit more about the drama with the Suharto years
But I literally just didn't have enough time the video was already getting pretty long
But yeah in the meantime we got a flag and other stuff to dissect so without further ado,
So I know what you're thinking: Oh the flag only has two colors.
This is going to be like the easiest flag explanation ever. And all I got to do is ehh
kind of. There's a lot of backstory. First of all, the flag is a simple horizontal by color of red and white
According to Sukarno, the Red represents courage while the white stands for purity.
THE END!
Okay, not exactly.
There's still a lot of speculation as to how the flag got its colors. Many say it's derived from Austronesian Mythology
symbolizing the duality of Earth for red and sky for white. This is why some other Austronesian flags contain these two colors like
Madagascar and the French protectorate of Tahiti. Historically, the two colors have been used either way
Some dating it back to as early as the 10th century
Hindu Javanese Kingdom era. Others might say the white part is derived from the natural color of woven cloths
and the red came from one of the earliest dyes acquired from the teak leaves and Mangosteen fruit
Others might say it might have to do with the Hotel Yamato incident in which during the war of independence
youths went to the Yamato hotel, remove the Dutch colonial flag and tore off the blue strip,
rehoisting it as the Indonesian flag. They then renamed that hotel 'Independence Hotel'. It's kind of like a landmark. Also keep in mind,
this is the exact same flag as Monaco with the only exception being a little bit of a different sized dimension ratio.
Whatever the case is, they like it. Now the Coat of Arms, which has a little bit more detail
you could say. The image contains a Golden Garuda, a legendary bird historically tied to Hinduism,
which was at one point the country's main Religion before Islam came in.
On it lies a heraldic shield with five emblems and a scroll in its claws. The Garuda symbolizes
virtue and power, knowledge, bravery, loyalty and discipline. Fun side note: the feathers of the Garuda have a
numeric significance as they cryptically connotes a date of Indonesia's independence.
Seventeen feathers on each wing, eight feathers on the tail,
19 at the base of the Shield, 45 on the neck, hence making the 17th of August 1945.
Pretty mind-blowing... Eh, Eh?
The image is on the Emblem Correspond to the Pancasila Principles Laid down by Sukarno.
The star in the center represents one supreme God on a black field representing Earth.
The chain symbolizes human generations and just civilized humanity.
The Banyan tree represents the unity of Indonesia. The Banteng bull stands for Democracy and Inner wisdom
and finally the rice and cotton sheaves stand for social justice and the entire people of Indonesia with sustenance and livelihood.
Underneath the Garuda, a scroll is being held by talons reading:
"Bhinneka Tunggal Ika"
which roughly translates to 'Unity in Diversity'. That emblem sure knows how to tell a story. Fun side note:
Thailand also uses the Garuda in their coat of arms
but you'll have to wait for that episode in like 4920 two years.
All right, you know what time it is? Geogra-Fan Mail Time!
All right, Let's get to it. I can't quite read your name
But you're from norway when he sends like these Norwegian country study flashcards cut it out this word on camera
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Nicholas who sent this from Belgrade Serbia Erin from Austin and this person didn't quite write their name they wrote their instagram
But they sent it from chile victor from Sweden and Josh from Pennsylvania. They each drew country balls
Just drew me as a california country ball. I've never been drawn in ball form that's interesting. Okay. This is cool abdul from Bahrain
Hey Barb's always everything
I'm abdul Rahman from Bahrain Garrison quilting from Bahrain a Bahrain and Saudi, bro
An appalling Kuwaiti banknote a must ba part of the folk accessories this goes with the fold
How do you wear it kind of it kind of looks like a rosary you know like the ones catholics where this is from
Ian from New Orleans, Louisiana
Hey Barb's to pilot process
Again with the french you guys really want to help me learn you know what let me let me try to do this an occasion
Accent because you're from Louisiana. It's not that hard like all you guys. Do just like roll your r's right to potter
To pilot Francais just really own ecole de Más. En. Francais Dupree. Do need arms
How was that I feel like when you do the cajun accent you
Just got to be like lazy and roll your R's not it was horrible. I butchered it
Ib I basically just offended everybody de noailles buyers from Costa Rica, and I love this when you guys write your addresses
It's like so complex. It's like Casa verde Sp. Era ethos piece off your addresses are so weird. Hey bar
My name is Fayez. I think I'm your first Costa rican. Yes, you are actually I've been following
You since pandya Kara you almost got me there
In this letter you'll find a couple of bank notes from my country please notice the flora and fauna on them
Okay, guys seriously if you've never seen Costa Rican money
it is some of the most beautiful banknotes on the planet look at this look at the imaging on this the shark the deer and
Costa Rican Guava filled Candy Ps
In case you were wondering my name comes from Syria my tyrian great-grandfather emigrated to Costa Rica in the 1920s
Okay is no surprise we got some canadians Peter. Thanks for the map of Toronto
Alexa sent out these flags Canada 150, and I'm stephen cool story about how you move to quebec
But you also visited belarus last year and got this old
2000 Belarus Ruble banknote braeden from Colorado says he's learning hindi and egyptian arabic, and he even wrote geography now in Hindi, okay?
This is really cool. Elijah from Texas. He saw the country country balls map that the other person made last weekend
So he decided to do an africa version. This is an African country balls map dude that is awesome
Thank you so much, man, and finally we got somebody from finland
Yo, hey there barb's greetings from Oulu Finland. Okay? You wrote like 10 pages of stuff
I'm just going to quickly read it and then come back
Wow, that's a quite a life story and also sent this like manuscript of all the country profile
But it's written in finnish. I really appreciate that, but the problem is I don't speak finnish
I feel like a lot of times you guys kind of send me like your homework like I'm some kind of teacher and you want
Me to grade it rather have time that person from quebec sent me their textbook actually I still have it here. Okay here
Right here, remember this literally someone sent me their textbook, and I'm like I'm just a youtuber alright, so that's it for now
But you know the drill before we go return address contest these are all of your return addresses
I put them all in a bag and I pick one and whoever wins I send a little gift to you guys, okay?
So I'm just going to pick one. I'm not going to look. I'm just going to pick fly
Yonas from Germany you just won. That's it for now. Thank you for watching this episode subscribe if you'd like and
Iran is coming up next week, so stay tuned. You've just been fly. I'm just about to say that