Malay tricolour

A tricolour featuring green, yellow and red, is a combination of colours that commonly found in varying designs of symbols adopted by some major organisations to symbolise the Malay people.

[1] The green is the traditional colour of Islam, a faith that has been the integral part of Malay culture.

The party, which would lead Malaya to its independence and govern the nation until 2018, included the additional white band to its flag to symbolise purity.

[11] Across the Straits of Malacca in Riau and Riau Islands in Sumatra where the Indonesian Malays having a strong historical and cultural ties with the Malay Peninsula, the colours hold a philosophical symbol similar to its their kin in the Mainland Southeast Asia.

The tricolours, locally named and shaded as Kuning Keemasan (Golden yellow), Hijau Lumut (Forest green) and Merah Darah Burung (Torch red)[12] is in extensive use for ceremonial and cultural purposes and can be seen donning throughout the cities and towns of the region, its also considered as a favourite colour for the traditional Malay weddings in the two provinces.