Iskandar Puteri City Council
The Iskandar Puteri City Council is the city council which administrates Iskandar Puteri City in Johor, Malaysia. This agency is under Johor state government. MBIP are responsible for public health and sanitation, waste removal and management, town planning, environmental protection and building control, social and economic development and general maintenance functions of urban infrastructure. The MBIP new headquarters is located at Medini.
History
Johor Bahru Tengah District Council
On 1 March 1978, Johor Bahru Tengah District Council became the last local authority in the State of Johor to be formed under the Local Government Act 1976 by merging the local councils of Skudai, Lima Kedai, Gelang Patah, Kangkar Pulai, Ulu Choh, Ulu Tiram, Plentong and Masai. The former five councils area comprised the west part of Johor Bahru Tengah, while the rest comprised the east part.All these local councils were established in the 1950s, with the Lima Kedai's local council being the last to be established in the Johor Bahru Tengah area. At the time of its formation, the then-district council area consisted of rural areas within the Johor Bahru District outside of Johor Bahru, except for Pasir Gudang, governed by State-owned entreprise – Johor Corporation. On the other hand, Kulai also a part of Johor Bahru District at the time was governed by a separate District Council since 1 January 1976.
The Johor Bahru Tengah District Council area covered an area of 104.7 km2 at the time of establishment, with headquarters near Skudai main road. Initially, the headquarters consisted of only the main hall. A double-storey building, completed in 1981, was later added to the premises. By 1988, the main operations of the District Council were moved to the double-storey building. However, in the 1990s, the Skudai Building could no longer cater the increasing staff members of the council. Thus, some of the council's departments had to be operated from a rented double-storey shop office in Taman Sri Skudai, until the Johor Bahru Tengah District Council's 10-storey building was completed in 1996. Extensions of the building were built later in 2005. As the town transformed into a municipality, the road in front of the headquarters was widened from a two-lane road into one with four lanes.
Johor Bahru Tengah Municipal Council
The Johor Bahru Tengah District council's area was increased to 303.48 km2 on 1 July 1995 as the Greater Johor Bahru metropolitan area experience rapid development since the start of the Nusajaya township project in 1993. On 1 January 2001, the Johor Bahru Tengah District Council was upgraded to the Johor Bahru Tengah Municipal Council, with an initial municipality area of 338.5 km2. It held its launching ceremony on the night of 31 March the same year at its premises.The municipal council's non profit charity arm the Johor Bahru Tengah Caring Foundation, now the Iskandar Puteri Caring Foundation was corporatised in March 2015 under the Trustee Act 1952 and launched on 22 October the same year by Mohamed Khaled Nordin at the Taman Universiti Grand Hall in Skudai to assist the poor, the disabled and the needy communities.
Iskandar Puteri City Council
By 31 December 2015, the municipality's area had increased to 560.71 km2. But the Johor State Government, on a 2 July 2014 meeting, decided to transfer some parts of Tebrau and Plentong Mukims to Johor Bahru City Council and Pasir Gudang Municipal Council respectively through a redelineation exercise of Kulai and Johor Bahru District Municipalities which took effect on 1 January 2016. This shrank the border of the Johor Bahru Tengah municipality to only its Western portion, which became the Iskandar Puteri City limit on 22 November 2017, reusing Johor Bahru's old name. The erstwhile Johor Bahru Tengah Municipal Council was also upgraded into the Iskandar Puteri City Council that very same day, coincidentally also the birthday of Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, who preside over its declaration event himself. Although its headquarters still remain in Skudai at that time, the newly established City Council had acquired of land in Medini Iskandar Malaysia, and organised a ground breaking ceremony for its soon-to-be-built new headquarters after the City Declaration Ceremony at its construction site.New Medini headquarters
Iskandar Puteri City Council began operating from its new 13-storey-tall state-of-the-art headquarters in Medini Iskandar Malaysia on 24 March 2021, with staff gradually relocating there from the old Skudai building. On 22 November 2024, the 7th anniversary of the city council's establishment, the new headquarters was launched by Crown Prince Tunku Ismail Idris and renamed the Temenggong Ibrahim Building.Emblem history
When the Johor Bahru Tengah District Council was established on 1 March 1978, it adopted an emblem that consisted of a green shield charged with an orange octagram, that contains a yellow star and crescent in a black circle surported on both sides by black pepper wreaths. The octagram represented the eight local councils that merged to form the Johor Bahru Tengah municipality. Below the shield is a blue ribbon with the district council's abbreviation in Malay and motto – "Bersatu Maju" in Jawi script.After upgradation of the district council as the Johor Bahru Tengah Municipal Council on 1 January 2001, a more complex emblem was adopted, consisted of an octagram quartered yellow and green placed on a white shield with the blue border written with the name of the municipal council in Jawi and Romanised Malay script. On each quarter of the octagram are the images of buildings that represent urban development, gears that represent industrial technology, computer components that represent information technology and Spanish Cherry as the municipality's official flower. The shield was topped by a yellow star and crescent and supported by two tigers from the Johor State coat of arms. Below a shield is a blue ribbon decorated with black pepper wreaths with the municipal council's motto – "Bersatu Maju" in Romanised script.
An emblem with a completely new design was adopted upon the upgradation of the Johor Bahru Tengah Municipal Council as the Iskandar Puteri City Council on 22 November 2017. It consisted of a blue shield with white outline charged with two golden black pepper wreaths that are surrounded by four white elephant tusks on both sides, the Johor State Flag at the top and a bridge and road markings at the bottom. The shield is supported by two Johor State arms tigers on both sides, and was topped by a yellow star and crescent in the original version, later replaced by the Johor Royal Crown in the 2018 revision. Below the shield is a blue ribbon with the name of the city council in Jawi and Romanised Malay script.
Presidents (''Yang di-Pertua'') of Johor Bahru Tengah
From 1978 until 2017, twelve men served as president of Johor Bahru Tengah District and Municipal Councils, with three of them also served a non-consecutive second term.| No | Name | Term start | Term end |
| 1 | Jalil Ariffi | March 1978 | June 1980 |
| 2 | Mohd Rashidi Md Noor | June 1980 | December 1981 |
| 3 | Hashim Yahya | January 1982 | September 1983 |
| 4 | Abd Kadir Sam'on | October 1983 | March 1988 |
| 5 | Ismail A Aziz | April 1988 | November 1989 |
| 6 | Mohd Noor Abd Rahim | December 1989 | November 1990 |
| 7 | Mohd Rashidi Md Noor | December 1990 | May 1993 |
| 8 | Mohd Noor Abd Rahim | June 1993 | December 1993 |
| 9 | Ismail A Aziz | January 1994 | January 1999 |
| 10 | Abdullah Jaafar | March 1999 | January 2003 |
| 11 | Burhan Amin | January 2003 | February 2006 |
| 12 | Md Fuzi Ahmad Shahimi | February 2006 | May 2013 |
| 13 | Salehuddin Hassan | June 2013 | August 2015 |
| 14 | Badrul Hisham Kassim | August 2015 | February 2017 |
| 15 | Adib Azhari Daud | February 2017 | 21 November 2017 |
Mayors (''Datuk Bandar'') of Iskandar Puteri
Until the present time, five men served as mayor of Iskandar Puteri, with two of them previously also served as president of Johor Bahru Tengah Municipal Council.| No | Name | Term start | Term end |
| 1 | Adib Azhari Daud | 22 November 2017 | 19 November 2019 |
| 2 | Salehuddin Hassan | 20 November 2019 | 31 January 2021 |
| 3 | Mohd Haffiz Ahmad | 1 February 2021 | 2 January 2025 |
| 4 | Ahmad Nazir Mohd Nasir | 3 January 2025 | 13 July 2025 |
| 5 | Hasrin Kamal Hashim | 14 July 2025 | Present |
Departments
- Management Services '
- Finance '
- Valuation & Property Management '
- Development Planning '
- Engineering '
- Building '
- Public Health '
- Licensing '
- Enforcement '
- Community Development '
- Landscape '
- Law '
- Corporate & Public Relations
- Information Technology ''''
Units
- Internal Audit '
- Strategic Management '
- Integrity '
- One Stop Centre '
- Commissioner of Building
- Smart City ''''
Administration areas (zones)
As of 2025, Iskandar Puteri is divided into 24 zones represented by 24 councillors to act as mediators between residents and the city council. The councillors for the 1 April 2024 to 31 December 2025 session are as below:| Zone | Councillor | Political affiliation |
| Pulai Indah | Mohd Nobli Mohd Nassir | UMNO |
| Kangkar Pulai | Muhamad Farkhan Mohd Haron | UMNO |
| Pulai Utama | Teo Teck Boon | MCA |
| Sri Pulai | New Kian Kiong | MCA |
| Taman Universiti | Fakhrul Zafran Absl Kamarul | UMNO |
| Mutiara Rini | Hafiz Abdullah Hashim | UMNO |
| Lima Kedai | Siti Zaleha Abdullah | UMNO |
| Nusa Bayu | Mohd Akmal Melan | UMNO |
| Gelang Patah | Yusli Yusof | UMNO |
| Leisure Farm | Zainab Bakar | UMNO |
| Tanjung Kupang | Nur Diyana Ra'il | UMNO |
| Medini Iskandar Malaysia | Mohamad Khairi A. Malik | UMNO |
| Kota Iskandar | Yusof Ahmad | UMNO |
| Horizon Hills | Wong Foong Yee | MCA |
| Impian Emas | Lau Mei Yok | MCA |
| Sri Skudai | Loh Woei Der | MCA |
| Skudai | Sangrapandian Velliappan | MIC |
| Skudai Baru | Lim Soon Hai | MCA |
| Selesa Jaya | Tambi Omar Latip | UMNO |
| Taman Ungku Tun Aminah | Chuah Lee Hui | MCA |
| Nusa Bestari | Tan Hiang Kee | MCA |
| Bukit Indah | Ragu Supermaniam | MIC |
| Sutera Utama | Dalela Sakiaman | UMNO |
| Perling | Mohamed Kamalruzaman Isa | UMNO |
Branch office
- Perling
- Skudai