Bandung, the capital city of West Java, is one of the ten largest cities in Indonesia with the economic growth rate that reached 8.62 percent (from 2008-2012), outperformed the national economic growth that is 5.8 percent. As many as 33 percents of the revenue come from the service sector, and one-third of it is driven by creative industries.
In 2005, the contribution of regional gross domestic product (GDP) of the creative economy sector reached 7.8 percent, equivalent to 20 trillion rupiahs. With the dominant contribution from the city’s creative sector, Bandung has been appointed as one of the creative cities in Indonesia in 2013 by UNESCO alongside Solo and Yogyakarta.