Foreign Media Highlight Incidents Incorrectly Print RI Flag at SEA Games

bohmano (47)in #seriously • 7 years ago

Indonesian people made a commotion on the incident of a flag print in the SEA Games guidebook 2017. The reason, in the book the flag should be red and white inverted to white red, like the Polish flag.

The false print incident also highlighted a number of foreign media. The British media, Daily Mail, reviews it under the title "SEA Games: Oops! Malaysia upsets Indonesia with flag blunders".
The flag of Indonesia consists of red and white, but printed in white on top, making it like a Polish flag, "wrote the Daily Mail.

In the paper, it was mentioned that the Malaysian side immediately apologized. Minister of Youth and Sports Affairs Jiran, Khairy Jamaluddin, personally visited the Minister of Youth and Sports Imam Nahrawi at his hotel.

Meanwhile Singaporean media Channel News Asia raised the Malaysian apology for the mistake.

"Representing the Malaysian government, we want to present an apology to the government and the people of Indonesia," Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said in a statement.

Still from Singapore media, The Straits Times, also discuss about Malaysian apology to Indonesia. "The Malaysian SEA Games organizers have apologized to Indonesia after its flag was printed upside down in the guidebook, which sparked outrage and scathing comments on social media."

In the article titled "SEA Games: Malaysia's sorry for Indonesia flag gaffe", The Straits Times quoted the SEA Games organizers' apology issued in a statement.

"We want to sincerely apologize to the Indonesian people for the unintentional mistake in printing the Indonesian flag."

US media, ABC News, raised the Malaysian apology issue with the article entitled "Malaysia apologizes for showing Indonesia's flag as Poland's".

In the paper, ABC News quoted Khairy as saying he would correct and reprint the guidebook.

With the title "Indonesia in flag flap with Malaysia at Games", Al Jazeera also discuss about Malaysia's mistake that triggered the anger of Indonesia.

"The mistake that made the Indonesian red and white flag turn upside down into a Polish flag, sparked Indonesia's anger in which ShameOnYouMalaysia became a popular tagar on Twitter," the Qatar-based media said.