Depok City Government Gathers 24,109 Red And White Flags, Exceeding Targets To Commemorate Independence Day Anniversary

Depok Mayor Mohammad Idris (Middle) accompanied by Depok Deputy Mayor Imam Budi Hartono (right) and Depok Regional Secretary Supian Suri (Kiri) (photo: Dok ANTARA)

Depok City Government (Pemkot), West Java managed to collect 24,109 Red and White flags which will be distributed to communities in 11 sub-districts and have exceeded the target set by the Ministry of Home Affairs for Depok City. "First, our target is in accordance with the total population, 10,000 from the Ministry, but Alhamdulillah we are far beyond the target in collecting the Red and White flag," said the Mayor of Depok, Mohammad Idris in Depok, Saturday, August 5. So he continued, the declaration of 10 million throughout Indonesia, now this is in order to invest, strengthening the planting of defending the country, such nationalism. Mohammad Idris expressed his gratitude to the Service or Regional Apparatus (PD) for collecting flags to enliven the 78th Anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Indonesia at the Depok City level. "Accepted gratitude to the three largest services of flag-gathering in Depok City, of course the first is the Education Office (Disdik), because many teachers and parents of students, so Disdik collected 7,583 flags," said Idris.

He said, in accordance with the ideals of the founders of the country, so the flag and the national anthem of Indonesia have become the unifying of the nation. "The Red and White Flag like this with a size of 300 \times200 cm or 3 \times2 meters has been agreed upon by the founders of the nation," he said. He said. It must be informed by the lurah and its sub-district head with ethics and applicable provisions regarding the raising of the Red and White flag," he said.