Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
The incident of the Indonesian flag being confused with Singapore colored the opening ceremony SEA Games 2025 at Rajamangala Stadium, Tuesday (9/12) evening.
The opening of the 2025 SEA Games was actually lively. Traditional cultural dance performances combined with laser games and LED graphics made the opening look stunning.
However, the opening with a duration of more than two and a half hours was not free from controversy. After implementation opening ceremony which was slightly delayed because King Vajiralongkorn and Queen Sineenat had not yet arrived, the moment was disgraced by a technical error that confused the Indonesian flag with Singapore’s.
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The incident of mixing the Red and White flags occurred when Indonesia was introduced as the host of the 1997 SEA Games. Instead of using the Indonesian flag, the 2025 SEA Games organizing committee displayed the Singaporean flag.
This is not the first time the Indonesian flag has been swapped at the 2025 SEA Games. Previously, when the women’s soccer schedule was released on the official 2025 SEA Games website, the committee put up the Laotian flag for Indonesia.
Meanwhile, Thailand, Indonesia’s opponent, was also confused with Vietnam’s flag.
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Apart from the Indonesian flag being mixed up, the opening of the 2025 SEA Games also contained errors in the display of the number of medals up for grabs. The number of medals up for grabs in this event was 574, but 547 were displayed on the monitor.
When the Vietnamese contingent was introduced, the map of Vietnam was incomplete, as it did not show the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa Islands.
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