Saturday, April 27, 1985. At a solemn military ceremony on Medan's Banteng Square, Army Chief-of-Staff Gen. Rudini officially handed over a banner with a picture of seven black mountains. It was the new standard for Military Area Command (Kodam) I/Bukit Barisan after three former Kodam—Kodam I/Iskandar Muda, Aceh, Kodam II/Bukit Barisan, Medan and Kodam II/August 17, Padang—were merged as one. Since then, the white elephant banner, a sy