Metrotvnews.com, Banda Aceh: Aceh government formally approved the Qanun No. 3 Year 2013 on the flag and coat of Aceh. Qanun was also endorsed a similar flag with the emblem of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM).
Head of Legal Secretariat Edrian Aceh in Banda Aceh on Tuesday (26/3), Buraq-lion emblem and flag of the Moon star has been by mutual agreement between the legislatures and the governor of Aceh.
He explained, qanun approved on Friday (22/3) has been inserted into the sheet area on Monday (25/03/2013). "From the perspective of the establishment of laws, if the Qanun Aceh Aceh has been promulgated in the Official Gazette, the legal consequences qanun has legality. Thus was enacted in Aceh and Aceh Gazette Supplement Aceh, Aceh Qanun Flag and Coat. Aceh is a part of the unitary Republic of Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia), "said Erdian.
According Edrian, in accordance with the Helsinki peace agreement, Aceh has the right to use the symbols of the region include the flag, emblem, and hymns.
Furthermore, according to Article 246 of Law No. 11 Year 2006 concerning Aceh Government which is derived from the Helsinki agreement, the flag is the national flag of the Republic of Indonesia based on the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia Year 1945.
In addition to the flag as described in paragraph (1), the Government of Aceh to determine and set the flag as a symbol of Aceh regions that reflect the features and peculiarities. "Aceh flag as a symbol referred to in paragraph (2) is not a symbol of sovereignty and is not treated as a flag of sovereignty in Aceh," he said.
After the ratification of the flag and emblem qanun in Aceh, a number of communities in North Aceh began to raise the flag openly. Dozens of residents also participate in convoy with a flag similar to the symbol GAM.
In Aceh Qanun Flag and Coat set, flag Aceh rectangular rectangle with width 2/3 of the length, the color of red, white two straight lines on the top and bottom, 1 black lines at the top and bottom. At the center of the picture there is a moon star flag with white and black.
For a symbol consisting of a lion, buraq, rencong, gliwang, shields, flowers, rice leaf, anchor, ta letter Arabic script, then the picture in the star with the motto Hudep Sare Mate Beu Beu Sajan. Both the flag and the emblem is not at all different from the flag and symbol of GAM between 1976 and 2005.
Although officially authorized, but no government agency in Aceh to raise the flag. In Banda Aceh, Aceh is a piece of the flag flying in the former houses of former GAM leader Hasan Tiro in the region, Eastern Lamteumen village, Banda Aceh.
In Kabupatean Nagan Raya, Aceh flags lowered three pieces of local police in the district and Kuala Kuala coastal district.
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