Capital

Jakarta

Continent

Asia

Flag adopted

1945

Designer

Not individually credited

Indonesia

Colors and meaning

• Red #FF0000

  Courage

• White #FFFFFF

  Purity

Symbolism and history

A plain red-over-white bicolor, proclaimed at independence in 1945 and, in near-identical form, the exact reverse of Poland's flag and effectively identical to Monaco's, a coincidence Indonesia has occasionally had to publicly clarify.

Closest-looking flags

• 

  Monaco

  Nearly indistinguishable from Monaco's flag (which is slightly narrower) and the exact reverse of Poland's white-over-red design.

• 

  Poland

  Nearly indistinguishable from Monaco's flag (which is slightly narrower) and the exact reverse of Poland's white-over-red design.

Further reading: Flag of Indonesia on Wikipedia