Section 15 of the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of East Timor on the National Flag reads,

1.   The National Flag is rectangular and is formed by two isosceles triangles, the bases of which are overlapping. One triangle is black and its height is equal to one-third of the length overlapped to the yellow triangle, whose height is equal to half the length of the Flag. In the centre of the black triangle there is a white star of five ends, meaning the light that guides. The white star has one of its ends turned towards the upper right end of the flag. The remaining part of the flag is red.

 2.   The colours mean:

 yellow – the traces of colonialism;

Black – the obscurantism that needs to be overcome;

red – the struggle for national liberation;

White – peace.