Myanmar and Indonesia’s flags had been held the other way up throughout a efficiency on the opening ceremony of the Cambodia SEA Video games. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI VIA ANN
PHNOM PENH – Organizers of the 2023 SEA Video games opening ceremony have issued a public apology to Indonesia, Vietnam and Myanmar for unintentionally holding their nation flags the other way up throughout the opening ceremony on the Morodok Techo Nationwide Stadium on Friday.
City Manufacturing, a Cambodian broadcasting and media manufacturing firm, stated in a press release on Saturday that it deeply regrets the “disrespectful mistake” and that it “includes an oversight from our half for mistakenly reversing the flags”.
It added: “We take full duty on this matter and want to humbly ask on your forgiveness for overlooking such necessary particulars from our crew. Transferring ahead, we hope this error will function a cautionary story for others and can work internally to enhance our kind and guarantee this can by no means occur once more.”
The manufacturing firm additionally stated that it’s going to ship an official apology letter to the embassies of the three nations.
The hosts kicked off its first-ever SEA Video games with a gap extravaganza to recollect on the Nationwide Stadium on Friday as these in attendance, together with Prime Minister Hun Sen, Laos President Thongloun Sisoulith, Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Ng Ser Miang and Singapore Nationwide Olympic Council president Tan Chuan-Jin, had been handled to an evening of coloration, tradition and celebration.
The nationwide flag of Cambodia is introduced into the Morodok Techo Nationwide Stadium firstly of the opening ceremony of the thirty second Southeast Asian Video games (SEA Video games) in Phnom Penh on Could 5, 2023. (Photograph by MOHD RASFAN / AFP)
Throughout a efficiency by native singers, a number of dancers had been seen carrying the flags of the 2023 SEA Video games contributors, with the Indonesia and Myanmar flags the other way up.
A Fb consumer commented on the official Cambodia SEA Video games web page : “As an Indonesian, I actually benefit from the performances that Cambodia has ready, every part is gorgeous, your tradition and the dance kinds are stunning however after I noticed my nation’s flag the other way up I used to be very disenchanted, an occasion of this magnitude however how may such a factor occur?
“Two individuals had been carrying flags and each had been the other way up, I imply the flag couldn’t have been ready hastily proper?”
In accordance with Indonesian media, Harry Warganegara, performing secretary common of Nationwide Olympic Committee (NOC) Indonesia, despatched an official objection letter after the incident to Vath Chamroeun, secretary common of the NOC of Cambodia and chief government officer of the Cambodia SEA Video games Organising Committee.
“Cambodia has apologized on to us and acted rapidly in order that the incident won’t be repeated on the opening ceremony,” stated Warganegara stated in a press release in a report by Indonesian Information Portal Tempo.
This isn’t the primary time that there was a flag blunder at a SEA Video games. In 2017, Kuala Lumpur needed to apologize to Indonesia after the flag was equally printed the other way up in a SEA Video games memento booklet.
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