Oded Mohamad Danial (15 November 1962 – 10 December 2021) was an Indonesian politician who served as mayor of

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from 2018 until his death in 2021. He had previously served as the deputy mayor of

Ridwan Kamil Mochamad Ridwan Kamil (born 4 October 1971), alternatively Kang Emil or RK, is an Indonesian architect and politician who was the 15th Governor of West Java, the largest (most populous) province of Indonesia. He was also the List of mayors of ...

, and a city councilor before that. Originating from

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, he had worked at

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before starting his own business. After entering politics as part of the

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, he eventually became the mayor of Bandung after winning the 2018 mayoral election.

Background

Oded was born on 15 November 1962 in

Tasikmalaya Regency Tasikmalaya Regency (pronounced ; , Sundanese: ) is a regency (, sub-provincial region) in the Indonesian province of West Java. With an area of , it is the biggest and most important in the southeast region of East Preanger (). Tasikmalaya Rege ...

, where he completed his basic education. He went to SMK Tasikmalaya vocational school for his high school. Later on, he studied at Universitas Pasundan, graduating in 2017.

Career

Business

After graduating in 1983 Oded worked at

– at the spare parts division – for 16 years until 1999, when the company laid off most of its employees. Oded employed tailors in manufacturing baby clothing and Islamic dresses, in addition to selling ice cream from his own home until 2016.

Politics

He was elected to Bandung's City Council in 2004 and 2009, in which he had been the deputy chairman of the B commission. In 2013, however, he participated in the mayoral election as architect

's running mate, and the pair won with 45.24 percent of the vote. As Kamil's deputy, he established a "

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on the Bus" program, which involved religious speeches on buses. He also headed the Bandung office of the

between 2010 and 2015. Oded ran as a mayoral candidate in 2018, winning a slim majority (50.1 percent) in the three-candidate race. Following Kamil's victory in the

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, Oded became acting mayor briefly starting on 6 September 2018. His term as deputy ended on 16 September 2018, although just several days later he was sworn in as Bandung's mayor by Kamil. As mayor, Oded initiated a garbage management program which promoted the slogan "reduce, separate, utilize" to reduce the quantity of trash generated by the city. An urban farming program was also launched, converting empty residential plots into gardens. The

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struck the city during his tenure, and the municipal government shifted its focus to handling the outbreaks. Oded himself tested positive for COVID-19 in January 2021.

Family and death

Oded had married twice. After his first wife died, he married , who in 2019 was elected as a member of the

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. The couple has seven daughters. Oded died on 10 December 2021. He had suddenly collapsed prior to giving a

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sermon, and was pronounced dead at the hospital. He was buried at night the same day in

next to his parents' graves.

References

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