Cimande Tarik Kolot Patch

Symbolic Meanings

The arm at the top symbolizes strength.

The handshake at the bottom represents friendship and brotherhood among the Pendekars of whatever lineage.

The tiger in the middle represents Cimande/Bogor.

On the right side we see cotton bolls. Cotton is used to plug the orifices of the dead and cotton cloth is also used for the shroud.

On the left side of the flag we see rice leaves. Padi or rice is what people eat for sustenance and thus, the two symbolize life and death.

Padi and cotton are also the symbols of what a student was to offer the teacher, that is food for training and cotton for clothes. If the student was to get killed in his training it was the cotton that would be used to wrap the body for burial. These symbols are also found in the Garuda Pancasila as they represent "Sandang", and "Pangan," "cotton and "rice". Sandang and Pangan are two of the three primary needs in Kejawen philosophy. Sandang represents clothing, protection, etc. Pangan represents the source of human's primary need for life.