Business

After graduating in 1983 Oded worked at Indonesian Aerospace – at the spare parts division – for 16 years until 1999, when the company laid off most of its employees.^[2][3] Oded employed tailors in manufacturing baby clothing and Islamic dresses, in addition to selling ice cream from his own home until 2016.^[3][4]

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 Ridwan Kamil's running mate, and the pair won with 45.24 percent of the vote. As Kamil's deputy, he established a "Dakwah on the Bus" program, which involved religious speeches on buses.^[1][5][6]

He also headed the Bandung office of the Prosperous Justice Party between 2010 and 2015.^[7]

Oded ran as a mayoral candidate in 2018, winning a slim majority (50.1 percent) in the three-candidate race.^[8] Following Kamil's victory in the gubernatorial election, Oded became acting mayor briefly starting on 6 September 2018.^[9] His term as deputy ended on 16 September 2018, although just several days later he was sworn in as Bandung's mayor by Kamil.^[10][11]

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.^[12] An urban farming program was also launched, converting empty residential plots into gardens.^[13] The COVID-19 pandemic struck the city during his tenure, and the municipal government shifted its focus to handling the outbreaks.^[14] Oded himself tested positive for COVID-19 in January 2021.^[15]