[1] In 1922, the municipal council moved to its current modern location at Alun-Alun Tugu [id].

[3] Under an independent Indonesia, the city council was reestablished in 1950, as a provisional legislature.

[5] In 2018, 40 out of 45 members of the legislature were arrested as suspects for bribery, in a case which also implicated mayor Mochammad Anton and another former legislator Ya'qud Ananda Gudban who had resigned to run in that year's mayoral election.

[6][7] The arrested members were accused of having received payments ranging from Rp 12.5 to 50 million (USD 842 to 3,368) in order to approve the proposed municipal budget in 2015.

[6] 40 replacements were sworn in around a week following the arrests in order to maintain the municipal government's functions.