Dr. H. Mochamad Ridwan Kamil, ST, MU D is an architect and politician from Indonesia. Ridwan Kamil has currently served as Governor of West Java since September 5 2018. So what is the story of Ridwan Kamil from his childhood, who was often called Kang Emil, until he was able to serve as Governor of West Java.
The following is the story of little Kang Emil and his experiences in the world of politics in Indonesia.
Profile of Ridwan Kamil Kecil
Ridwan Kamil, whose full name is Mochamad Ridwan Kamil, was born in Bandung, West Java 50 years ago, on October 4, 1971. Ridwan Kamil’s father was Dr. Atje Misbach Muhjiddin, SH who works as a Doctor and also a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Padjadjaran University.
Ridwan Kamil’s father is a descendant of kyai Muhyidin or known as Mama Pagelaran who was the founder of three Islamic boarding schools in Sumedang and Subang, West Java. Ridwan Kamil’s mother’s name is Tjutju Sukaesih. Ridwan Kamil is the second of five children.
Ridwan Kamil has been known as an intelligent and active child since childhood. Ridwan Kamil is a hard worker and never gives up. Little Ridwan Kamil is already good at selling his own handmade mambo ice. The proceeds from selling mambo ice are also quite large. Ridwan Kamil spent his childhood and youth in the city of Bandung.
In 1978 Ridwan Kamil entered elementary school at SDN Banjarmasin III Bandung. Then in junior high school, Ridwan Kamil studied at SMP Negeri 2 Bandung in 1984. Then, he continued his studies at SMA Negeri 3 Bandung in 1987.
After graduating from school in 1990, Ridwan Kamil took undergraduate or undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Architectural Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology and successfully graduated in 1995. Since college, Ridwan Kamil has been known to be active in various activities, both student groups and art activity units in campus, ITB. When he was in college, Ridwan Kamil was already living independently.
Ridwan Kamil ended his bachelorhood by marrying a girl named Atalia Praratya Kamil. Their second marriage was held in 1996. Now Ridwan Kamil and Atalia have three children named Emmiril Khan Mumtadz, Camillia Laetitia Azzahra and Arkana Aidan Misbach.
Four years later, Ridwan Kamil took and continued his Master’s studies at the Master of Urban Design, University of California, Berkeley from 1999 to 2001. Ridwan Kamil also continued his Doctoral studies by taking an Honoris Causa Doctorate, Dong-a University in 2019.
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Ridwan Kamil’s career
Ridwan Kamil, or often known as Kang Emil, had a career as an architect who also served as a non-permanent lecturer at the Bandung Institute of Technology or ITB before finally serving as Governor of West Java.
In 1995 Kang Emil received his bachelor’s degree, then Kang Emil started his career in the United States. But his career only lasted for about four months, in the end Kang Emil stopped working because he was affected by the monetary crisis that hit Indonesia at that time. However, Kang Emil did not immediately intend to return to his home country, he chose to remain in the United States before getting a scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley.
After getting the opportunity to study for free, Kang Emil took the opportunity to study at the University. Kang Emil also took part-time work while studying. Kang Emil worked part-time at the Berkeley City Planning Department. In 1999, after Kang Emil graduated from Masters at the University of California, Berkeley, Kang Emil continued working professionally as an architect in various firms located in the United States.
In 2002 Ridwan Kamil returned to Indonesia and two years after his return, Kang Emil founded Urbane in July 2004 with his friends, such as Achmad D. Tardiyana, Reza Nurtjahja and Irvan W. Darwis. Urbane is a company that operates in the field of planning, architecture and design consulting services. The Urbane team consists of young professionals who are creative and have idealistic thinking to find and create solutions to environmental and urban design problems.
Urbane also has a Community-based project in the Urbane Community Project where the vision and mission is to help people in an urban community as well as to provide donations and expertise in improving the surrounding area. Urbane has received many awards from international media such as the BCI Asia Awards three years in a row, from 2008, 2009 and 2010 and also the BCI Green Award in 2009 for the Rumah Botol design project , namely the recycling of used bottles.
Urbane also often takes part in competitions in the field of architectural design at the national level, such as winning first place in the Tsunami Museum design competition in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam in 2007, winning first place in the 1st Tarumanegara University campus design competition in 2007, first place in the Faculty of Cultural Sciences design competition at the University of Indonesia in 2007. 2009, First place in the Sanggar Nagari design competition in Kota Baru Parahyangan in West Bandung Regency and first place in the Art Center design competition at the University of Indonesia in 2009.
Until now, Kang Emil actively serves as Principal at PT. Urbane Indonesia, serves as a Lecturer in the Architectural Engineering Department of the Bandung Institute of Technology, and also as a Senior Urban Design Consultant for SOM, EDAW or Hong Kong and San Francisco, and SAA or Singapore.
Thanks to Ridwan Kamil’s career as a lecturer at the Bogor Agricultural Institute, he has become increasingly well known in the city of Bandung. Ridwan Kamil is also known as a person who has a strong personality of caring about progress in his city, namely the city of Bandung.
Apart from that, Ridwan Kamil has also appeared in Indonesian films several times, Mudalovers! Ridwan Kamil appears as a cameo or the appearance of someone famous in film, theater, video and television. Ridwan Kamil appeared in several films and soap operas, including: Demi Ucok film in 2013, Hijabers In Love in 2014, soap opera Preman Pensiun in 2015, film The Wedding and Bebek Betutu in 2015, film Total Chaos in 2017 , Dilan 1990 film in 2017 and 2018, Dilan 1991 in 2019, Serendipity film in 2018, Yowis Ben 2 film in 2019, the film Mangga Muda in 2020, and became a voice actor for the film Riki Rhino in 2020.
Career While Serving as Mayor of Bandung
In 2013 Ridwan Kamil was nominated by the Prosperous Justice Party and the Greater Indonesia Movement Party as mayor of Bandung. Ridwan Kamil collaborates with Oded Muhammad Danial as deputy mayor candidate. In the plenary meeting of the Bandung City General Election Commission on June 28 2013, Ridwan Kamil and Oded Muhammad Danial won a landslide victory over seven other pairs by winning 45.24% of the votes and making them both winners.
On September 16 2013, Ridwan Kamil and Oded Muhammad Danial were officially appointed as Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Bandung for the period 2013 to 2018. One of the work programs was to create the Bandung Command Center, namely a control center for the city of Bandung, supported by GPS tracking and CCTV . in various places to monitor the condition of the city of Bandung, apart from that it is useful in realizing a smart city of Bandung.
On February 4 2017 Ridwan Kamil inaugurated the pedestrian bridge from Cihampelas to Tamansari which was named Teras Cihampelas, the purpose of this bridge was to overcome traffic jams on Jalan Cihampelas. The Cihampelas Terrace Bridge was built with a budget of IDR 45 billion. The Cihampelas terrace is 450 m long, which is divided into three zones, namely culinary, souvenir and garden and can accommodate 180 traders. Even vehicles can be parked at Tamansari.
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Career While Serving as Governor of West Java
In the 2018 general election for Governor of West Java which was held on July 27 2018, Ridwan Kamil was nominated as a candidate for Governor. Ridwan Kamil took Uu Ruzhanul Ulum as his representative from PPP, PKB, Nasdem Party and Hanura Party. The election schedule for this period was postponed, namely on February 24, this was because it followed the schedule for the third wave of simultaneous regional head elections in June 2018.
Based on applicable regulations, only political parties that have 20 or more seats in the West Java DPRD can nominate candidates. Meanwhile, political parties that have fewer seats can nominate candidates only if they have received support from other political parties.
Ridwan Kamil and Uu Ruzhanul Ulum became the first pair of candidates for Governor and Deputy Governor to register with the West Java KPUD. And the KPU determined the candidacy for Governor and Deputy Governor of West Java on February 12 2018.
The General Election Commission or KPU of West Java Province officially appointed Ridwan Kamil and UU Ruzhanul Ulum as elected Governor and Deputy Governor of West Java for the period 2018 to 2023. This was revealed in an open plenary meeting to determine the selected candidate pairs for the election of Governor and Deputy Governor of West Java on in 2018, the address is at the West Java KPU Office, Jalan Garut.
Chairman of the West Java KPU, Yayat Hidayat said in his speech that, based on West Java KPU decision no. 145 of 2018 concerning Determination of the Recapitulation of Vote Counting Results for the 2018 West Java Gubernatorial Election, determined that the pair number 1. Ridwan Kamil and Uu Ruzhanul Ulum received the most votes at 32.88% or 7,226,254 votes.
Ridwan Kamil’s leadership as Governor of West Java
- Ridwan Kamil’s leadership style includes task and relationship aspects. The task aspect is that which shows an attitude of assertiveness in clear work standards and the ability to carry out regular coordination with subordinates. Meanwhile, the relation aspect is that a leader will act as a good listener of what is conveyed by his subordinates and accept input and criticism as an evaluation given.
1. Ridwan Kamil’s Visionary Leadership.
In 2019, Ridwan Kamil received an award as Inspirational Leader in Asia Pacific at the 2019 Govinsider Innovation Awards held at UN Headquarters. This award was given because Ridwan Kamil is considered a leader who is visionary and innovative in carrying out his leadership. One of Ridwan Kamil’s programs that was appreciated was the digital village program to accelerate development in West Java.
Ridwan Kamil has also released many other digital-based innovation programs in order to face the industrial era 4.0 or the digital era. These various digital-based innovation programs show that Ridwan Kamil is able to identify changes that will occur in the future, especially the industrial era 4.0. Technological progress is increasingly rapid so that the West Java Provincial Government will be very left behind if it does not use digitalization in its public services. Ridwan Kamil’s ability to identify these changes has succeeded in being considered a visionary leader and even recognized internationally.
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2. Ridwan Kamil’s Leadership in Decision Making.
Basically a person’s leadership style depends on each individual. Likewise with Ridwan Kamil’s leadership style, he is required to be able to make decisions as a regional leader whose aim is to implement the government process in the region he leads. One basis for determining the type of decision making can be based on situations of certainty, risk, uncertainty and conflict.
At the beginning of 2020, Ridwan Kamil, who served as Governor of West Java, was faced with a situation of uncertainty and risk. This is because the corona virus entered Indonesia in early March 2020. This first case occurred in the Depok area, West Java, which is under the leadership of Ridwan Kamil. Because the first case of the corona virus entering Indonesia was the spread of the Covid-19 virus throughout Indonesia to this day.
Ridwan Kamil’s decision making style is a directing leadership style. The decision making style is synonymous with a rational attitude in thinking, efficiency and logic. The directing style is also characterized by making decisions quickly and focusing on the short term, so that it is not uncommon for decision making to occur based on limited information and few alternatives.
We can see decision making in a directing style from the response given by the West Java Provincial Government to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 or one month after the first case was confirmed. At that time, Covid-19 was a new thing for the world, especially Indonesia.
Apart from that, the information available is also very limited. So there is a need for a concrete response to suppress the spread of the corona virus to other areas. Ridwan Kamil as Governor of West Java Province decided to carry out mass rapid tests and self-funded swab tests amidst conditions where the Central Government was unable to carry out mass tests.
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