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What is circulating
“"Bandung's surface is already far below sea level. That is why the water always rises every rainy season," Dedi Mulyadi said on 10 December 2025.”
Claimed by Dedi Mulyadi, Governor of West Java · official statement
The facts
BPS data from 2024 put Bandung's average elevation at 650 to 800 metres above sea level, with the lowest district, Gedebage, at 666 metres. Land subsidence in Bandung is real, at about 2 to 10 centimetres a year according to an ITB geodesy expert, but that cannot bring a city hundreds of metres up and far from the coast below sea level.