Muhammad Farhan

Media career

After graduating from Padjadjaran, Farhan began to work as a radio presenter. He moved to Jakarta's Mustang FM and Hard Rock FM, then to .

Farhan also worked as a television presenter, working for RCTI, SCTV, and Indosiar between 1996 and 2002. In March 2006, Farhan moved to ANTV, which offered him higher pay, and then to tvOne. He stated that he was retiring from presenting in 2015, although he still took on MC work in events. In 2016, Farhan returned to presenting, joining Metro TV and presenting the Nite Time program.

Farhan have also played supporting roles in the several films, namely Jakarta Undercover (2007), Crush (2014), Dilan 1990 (2018), and Dilan 1991 (2019). In the election, he ran for a House of Representatives (DPR) seat representing West Java's 1st electoral district covering Bandung and Cimahi, securing 52,033 votes and winning a seat. He was appointed to DPR's First Commission.

Mayor of Bandung After the legislative election, Farhan registered to run as mayor of Bandung in the 2024 Bandung mayoral election. Erwin, a Bandung city legislator and chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB)'s local branch, became his running mate. Aside from Nasdem and PKB, the pair was also endorsed by the Labour Party and Gelora Party. Farhan and Erwin won the election with 523,000 votes (44.6%) in the a four-way race, winning in 23 out of 30 districts of the city. They were sworn in on 20 February 2025.

As mayor, Farhan claimed that he would avoid new "monumental" construction projects, stating that he would focus on maintaining existing Art Deco buildings and infrastructure maintenance. Responding to flooding in May 2025, he requested that the city's inhabitants living on riverbanks voluntarily relocate.

Personal life He married Aryatri in September 1998, and the couple had two children.