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Located by Erik Bell, December 31, 2002.
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At the suggestion of Laung Sukhum Nayapradit an olympic official from Thailand,
the Southeast Asian Penninsula Games Federation was created in 1958 to stage
games promoting friendliness among the nations of Southeast Asia.
The founding members were:
The first games were held in 1959 and biennially afterward. On Febuary 5, 1977 Indonesia, The Philippines, and Brunei Darussalam were admitted and the name changed to Southeast Asian Games Federation.
Erik Bell, December 31, 2002.
The first SEAP Games Federation and ceremonial flag was six gold interlocking rings forming a circle on a blue field. This flag was used from 1959 to 1997. The current flag was introduced in 1999 and differs only in that there are 10 gold rings instead of six. The flag is lowered at closing ceremonies, folded, and presented by the SEA Games Federation to representatives of the next host nation.
Attached is a photo of the SEA Games Flag being carried at the closing ceremony of the 2001 SEA Games. (c) Vietnam News Agency. You can get a close up look at the flag in a video clip of the 2001 SEA Games Opening Ceremony at Thestar: SEA Games site. Click on the OpeningCeremony3 file. The color of the flag appears more accurate in this video clip than in the photo mentioned above.
Erik Bell, December 31, 2002.
Flag and emblem
"26. (...) a. Both in the Stadium and its neighbourhood, the Federation Flag must be freely flown, with the flags of the competing nations. A large Federation Flag must fly in the Stadium during the SEA Games from a flagpole in the area where it shall be hoisted at the moment the Games are declared open and lowered when they are declared closed.
b. The Federation Flag shall be of a height of two meters and width of three meters. It shall have a light blue background with six bright yellow gold rings in the middle. The rings shall be approximately 3/6 of the height.
c. The light blue coloured background means the water that surrounds, or the sky that covers the Southeast Asian Countries. The bright yellow gold rings symbolize the six original Southeast Asian Countries. They are intertwined to denote friendship, brotherly love and unity of purpose. See back cover for the geographic and graphic details of the emblem. If additional nations are added, or if some are deleted the original design of the flag shall remain unchanged. No attempt will be made to identify any particular nation with any particular ring. The Flag is completely reversible.
(...)"
Reported by Erik Bell, February 13, 2003.
The 23rd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) being held
in the Philippines was officially opened on Sunday in
Manila. Some flag related observations while watching
the ceremony broadcasted on television.
The parade of nations saw flag bearers carrying their
respective national flags as is customary during the
ceremony. For this purpose, all flags were made in
equal proportions from what I could visualise. They
were all quite elongated, likely to be in the
proportion of 1:2, which works naturally for
Brunei Darussalam,
Malaysia
and the host
Philippines, but elongated for
Myanmar,
Singapore,
Cambodia,
Vietnam,
Indonesia,
Laos,
Thailand and
Timor Leste.
Interestingly during the ceremony, Malaysia had not one but three
flag bearers, unlike other contingents which had only
one. The Laotian flag was strangely made to look
more like an equal horizontal tri-band - the rightmost flag).
I was quite sure that their
white disc was a tad too small.
Herman FMY, November 2005.