00:01Cerengganu Menteri Besar Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar says the flying of a Jalur Gemilang without the moon and star in Kuala
00:07Cerengganu was unintentional and an isolated incident.
00:11According to Berita Harian, Samsuri said the incident, which went viral on social media last Friday, would be investigated to
00:19ensure it does not happen again.
00:21Kuala Cerengganu Mayor Lizan Cheh Mat explained that the flag had originally been complete, but the stitching holding the moon
00:29and star came undone during strong winds.
00:32The Kuala Cerengganu City Council removed the flag immediately on Friday and replaced it with a new one.
00:39Lizan said the council viewed the incident seriously and would ensure that flags are flown according to specifications.
00:47He added that the city would stop stitching its own flags and buy complete ones instead.
00:52Meanwhile, Jalutong MP RSN Reyer questioned what he called the deafening silence from UMNO youth, despite public criticism of the
01:01incident.
01:02In a Facebook post, Reyer suggested UMNO youth were silent because the incident did not happen in Penang,
01:08an apparent reference to last year's controversy over a hardware store owner hoisting the flag upside down.
01:16Adrian Fernandez, FMT.
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