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Bandung was Indonesia's most photographed smart city between 2013 and 2018, when mayor Ridwan Kamil opened a Rp 30 billion command centre and a portfolio of city apps that toured conference stages worldwide. Eight years on, the room is still staffed around the clock — but its daily work is three call-takers on the 112 emergency line and a wall of CCTV, and the successor administration says openly that it has stopped building apps and is folding services into a single one instead. What survived is unglamorous and mostly real: a traffic control system whose adaptive timing the mayor admits nobody has fed data to, a bike-share whose automatic docks are now supplemented by a truck that delivers the bikes each morning, a flood warning chain resting on two water-level sensors, and a 2,000-dataset open portal that carries no licence.
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Three entries that show what Bandung is actually doing.
Bandung publishes 2,083 datasets and no licence. Six in ten come from sub-district offices, none is flagged real-time, and the median dataset has been downloaded six times.
BOSEH's docks still open with a tap of a stored-value card. By 2025 the bikes were being trucked out to the shelters each morning and collected again at night.
Bandung's traffic system can retime its own signals. In July 2025 the mayor said nobody had given it the data to do that — so it mostly counts violations that carry no fine.
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All 7 projects in Bandung
On a time axis, by the year each one started — 2009 to 2023. Pick a dot to read what it was.
Bandung put its city buses, its tourist bus and its school buses on one live map. Then it made paying by QR code cheaper than paying cash — the discount is the enforcement.
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Compare with other cities
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro: Rio Operations Center (COR)The genre's reference case at ten times the scale — and the room Indonesian city halls were photographed in front of after it.
🇨🇳 Nanjing: My Nanjing City Super-AppThe same consolidation strategy at opposite outcomes: 11.25 million registered users against a listing that has passed 10,000.
🇮🇩 Jakarta: ETLE Camera Traffic EnforcementThe city counts the violations, the police issue the fines — the Indonesian split that stops a camera dashboard becoming enforcement.
🇮🇩 Jakarta: Jakarta Smart CityBoth answered app sprawl with one front door; JAKI got there first and Bandung is still earning the installs back.
🇮🇩 Surabaya: Surabaya Command Center 112Indonesia's two best-known command rooms, both built around the free 112 line, both still staffed after the mayors who opened them moved on.
Official strategy and sources
↗ The organization driving the city's smart-city work.
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