Bandung Command Center

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Indonesia's most-photographed smart-city control room opened in January 2015 and is still staffed around the clock. Its daily work is now three people answering an emergency line.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure

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Run byBandung Command Center, Dinas Komunikasi dan Informatika (Diskominfo) Kota Bandung

Scale🏙️ City-wide

CostRp 30 billion reported for the 2015 build

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 6 more in Bandung · 📡 Sensors & IoT guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects

Mayor Ridwan Kamil opened the Bandung Command Center in January 2015 for a reported Rp 30 billion, and it became the stock image of Indonesian smart-city ambition. It still runs. Inside the room, three call-taker desks are staffed 24 hours a day in three shifts (06:00–14:00, 14:00–22:00, 22:00–06:00) handling the free 112 emergency number, which the city says is the only number integrated with its agencies and volunteer responders; agents verify each call and forward it in real time by emergency type — health, fire, accident, crime, disaster. The same operators watch what the city describes as hundreds of CCTV points, publish three event summaries a day to a public Instagram account, and host the city's flood early-warning feed.

Live 📅 since 2015

🎓 Lesson

The control room outlived the app portfolio built around it. Bandung's 2015 press pack promised an integrated city brain; what is demonstrably still running eleven years later is emergency dispatch and a camera wall — valuable, staffed, unglamorous, and roughly what a 999 centre does. When judging a famous command centre, ask which of its functions has an operator rostered onto it today.

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Sources

↗ infobdg (local media, 17 June 2015)Founding facts. Verbatim: 'Sejak awal peluncurannya pada Januari 2015 lalu' and 'Bandung Command Center yang menelan anggaran yang totalnya mencapai Rp. 30 M', and 'Bandung Command Center (BCC) adalah sebuah gagasan dari Wali Kota Bandung Ridwan Kamil'.

↗ Diskominfo Kota Bandung (city government, 28 Nov 2025)Today's staffing, verbatim: 'Tiga meja, kursi, dan layar komputer di sudut ruangan Bandung Command Center itu selalu terisi 24 jam non-stop. Petugasnya berjaga gantian selama 24 jam, terbagi menjadi tiga sif: pagi (06.00-14.00 WIB), siang (14.00-22.00 WIB), dan malam (22.00-06.00 WIB).' Also 'memantau ratusan titik CCTV' and the three-a-day Instagram summaries.

↗ Diskominfo Kota Bandung (city government, 18 Dec 2025)Live status plus the honest counterweight. BCC coordinator Yusuf Cahyadi, verbatim: 'untuk kondisi gawat darurat di Kota Bandung, satu-satunya nomor resmi yang terintegrasi dengan seluruh OPD, instansi, dan relawan adalah 112. Nomor tersebut aktif 24 jam, bebas pulsa.' The article is itself a rebuttal to a published complaint that the city call centre was slow to answer.

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Compare this project

🇮🇩 Surabaya Command Center 112 · Surabaya Indonesia's two best-known command rooms, both built around the free 112 line, both still staffed after the mayors who opened them moved on. 🇧🇷 Rio Operations Center (COR) · Rio de Janeiro The genre's reference case at ten times the scale — and the room Indonesian city halls were photographed in front of after it. 🇮🇩 Jakarta Smart City · Jakarta Two Indonesian cities that made a screen the emblem of a mayoralty; Jakarta's outlived the branding by becoming an app.

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📟 A Reading Is Not a Decision 📖 Automated speed enforcement (speed cameras)📖 Flood early-warning system 📖 Integrated command and control centre (ICCC)

📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Bandung Command Center” — Bandung, Indonesia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/bandung-command-center/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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