History
The idea of dividing Bandung Regency into two separate regencies originated in 1999, based on a proposal from the current regent (H.U. Hatta Djati Permana) for the parliament to consider and approve the idea of splitting off the western part of the existing Bandung Regency. Before the split-off was successfully completed, Cimahi (an area consisting of three districts, which used to be part of Bandung Regency) had been promoted to became autonomous city. After Cimahi become an autonomous administration, the request to split off the western portion of Bandung Regency as a separate regency grew.
Finally in 2007, the government of Indonesia approved the proposal to separate the western part of Bandung Regency to became an autonomous regency, the Western Bandung Regency. On its birth, this newest regency in West Java were headed by an acting regent H. Tjatja Kuswara (an officer from West Java provincial government) until April 2008, when the first direct election of West Bandung Regency Regent was held, with H. Abubakar and H. Agus Yasmin as the contestants; H. Abubakar with his running mate Ernawan Natasaputra won the election and became the Regent and Vice-Regent of West Bandung Regency.
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