Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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The national flag is very much associated with the Sultan whose full name and title is D.Y.M.M. (Duli Yang Maha Mulia — equivalent of His Majesty) Sultan Mahmood Iskander Al-Haj Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Ismail, D.K., S.P.M.J., S.P.D.K., D.K. (Brunei) S.S.I.J., P.I.S., B.S.I. The present Malaysian government tries hard to down-play the role of the Malaysian monarchy but the rural segment of the population is very much pro-monarchy. This is a general statement for all of peninsular Malaysia and not restricted to only Johore (English version of the name). The Johore Sultan is one of the most popular Sultans and there was a confrontation of sort several months ago when the Malaysian prime minister disbanded the Sultan's personal army.
Thomas W. Koh, 14 May 1997
I seem to recall that Flaggenbuch 1939 shows all of these with the same line acting simultaneously as symmetry axis of both the crescent and the star.
Santiago Dotor, 24 January 2000
![[Sultan's Standard (Johore, Malaysia)]](../images/m/my-jo_su.gif)
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by Ivan Sache
Flaggenbuch 1939 shows the Standard of the Sultan [Sultanstandarte] as a white flag with a blue crescent and a blue 9-pointed star with very sharp points. The crescent is not totally [horizontally-] symmetrical, but less asymmetrical than the current national flag. (Note that the symmetry of the flags s