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Former Indigenous States of Indonesia (Dutch Protectorate)

Last modified: 2026-10-31 by zachary harden
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[National flag of Indonesia] 2:3 [ National Flag and Ensign ] image by Željko Heimer, 2 Jan 1996


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Jambaraj

  1:1, image by Jaume Ollé

Japara

  2:3, image by Jaume Ollé

Japara Chinese

  2:3, image by Jaume Ollé

Java

  4:5 image by Jaume Ollé

Java (standard)

  4:5 image by Jaume Ollé

Java (variant)

  by António Martins, 15 September 2024

Nineteenth century flag with Zulfiqar from Java: See detailed photo at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Katoenen_banier_met_Arabische_kalligrafie_TMnr_5663-1.jpg (Dutch and Arabic translation needed!) All I can tell is that it includes the zulfikar (the stylized iconic split sword of Ali) besides the trivial that it is dark blue with white writing and that it is oblong and it´s rather pentagonal with parallel top and bottom edges and a squat tapering end at the fly, its tip roughly 90°; overall ratio about 12:25. As usual for Arabic-inscribed flags and matching the photo, this image shows the hoist at the viewer´s right hand. I wonder how the reverse looks like.
António Martins, 15 September 2024

Jambi

Sultan´s Flag

  4:5, image by Jaume Ollé

In his book "Les drapeaux de l´Islam", P.Lux-Wurm (2001) shows the "Sultan´s flag and ensign, XIXth century" of the Sultanate of Jambi. The flag is rectangular, in proportions 2:3, plain white.
The Sultanate of Jambi was located on the eastern coast of the island of Sumatra, now part of Indonesia. Jambi and the region of Palembang were from the IVth to the XIVth century the center of Sri Vidjaya´s Mahayana Buddhist Empire. Around 1455, Arya Damar, ruler of Palembang, was converted to Islam and took the name of Arya Dilah Abd-Allah.


The plain white flag was used as the Sultan´s personal standard. The white colour symbolized the political and religious powers of the Sultan. The vessels of the Sultanate also used a plain white ensign. Lux-Wurm does not clearly state if they were merchant or war vessels. Therefore we might want to call the flag "State  ensign". The city of Jambi was located 50 km from the seashore but could be reached by ships via the river Batang Hari.
The Sultanate was suppressed in 1945 when the independence of Indonesia was proclaimed. The city of Jambi is now called Telanajpura.
Ivan Sache, 15 June 2003

War Flag

  4:5, image by Jaume Ollé

The flag was plain white.

Prince Consort´s Flag

  4:5, image by Jaume Ollé

The flag of the Prince Consort (Indonesian: Pangeran Ratu) was plain yellow.

Merchant Ensign of Notables

  4:5, image by Jaume Ollé

The flag was red with a white canton.

Merchant Ensign

  4:5, image by Jaume Ollé

The flag was blue with a white canton.

Sangaji Flag

 

The flag was white with two white triangular appendices and had a red trapezium on its centre. At ist top had been a streamer horizontally parted of red over white.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Oct 2026

Royal Flag in Land of the Maharaja of Jemaja

  , image by Jaume Ollé

Ratio 2:3.

Adopted: ?.

Abolished: ?.

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