Bambang Pamungkas

I have a soft spot for Bambang Pamungkas, the striker Indonesians know simply as Bepe. Born in Semarang and standing only 170cm, he was never built to overpower defences, yet he scored relentlessly for Persija Jakarta and the national team across a long career. Southeast Asian football rarely gets discussed seriously elsewhere, but the burden of being your country's talisman is the same everywhere, and he carried it for years. His move into coaching, and his continued public presence through his own site, show a player invested in passing the game on. A forward who scores on instinct and heart, not size, is exactly my type.

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Name (English)

Bambang Pamungkas

Name (Japanese)

バンバン・バムンガス

Reading

ばんばん・ばむんがす

Born

June 10, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia

Height

170 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Monkey

• Official sitehttps://www.bambangpamungkas20.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bepe20/
• Xhttps://x.com/bepe20
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambang%20Pamungkas
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%A0%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q975434

Tags

• Central Java
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.