Let’s move on from ‘Jalur Gemilang’ issue, says Penang CM

Let’s move on from ‘Jalur Gemilang’ issue, says Penang CM



Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow said the upside-down Jalur Gemilang incident has been sufficiently addressed and urged all parties to move on. — Bernama pic

Thursday, 14 Aug 2025 2:12 PM MYT


GEORGE TOWN, Aug 14 — Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow said it is time to move on from the upside-down Jalur Gemilang issue.

He said reports were made, investigations were conducted and various parties have already voiced their criticisms.

“The investigation was completed and investigation papers submitted to the AGC, so I believe this is enough so let’s move forward,” he said to reporters on the sidelines after launching AMD at GBS By The Sea today.

He said Umno Youth chief Datuk Dr Akmal Saleh is welcome to come to Penang to enjoy its food.


“He is most welcomed to come and enjoy our food, nasi kandar, we have durians too, as long as he doesn’t stir trouble,” he said.



Akmal had previously planned to hold a “class” for the shop owner in Kepala Batas who had put up the flag upside down.

However, after a police warning, he cancelled the event and posted on his social media that he is only coming to Penang for the food and to see the big Jalur Gemilang put up on the shop frontage by DAP.


The hardware store in Jalan Bertam Perdana recently went viral for flying the national flag upside down.

The 59-year-old shop owner, who was investigated, reportedly said it was an unintentional mistake while measuring the flagpole and that he had corrected the mistake later.

kt comments: in that initial 21 seconds of assembling the flag plus accessories, they framed him for a so-called treasonous crime when he had NOT even raised the flag fully, upside down or right-side up. And based on that unsettled phrase, the authorities hauled him for an overnight incarceration plus interrogations as if he had betrayed the nation, for which ironically he was to have raised the national flag for Independence Day.

Chinese saying "choe ho sim, haw lui chim" (Do a good deed, struck by thunder)

Yet, In 2022, navy personnel raised our national flag upside down at Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur - where's the hue & cry?

And the same so-called crime was also committed by the Defenders of the Faith & whatrot, UMNO and PAS too, but where's the hue & cry?


Following the controversy, DAP announced that it would sponsor a giant Jalur Gemilang for the shop and mobilised Penang party members to distribute 831 flags.