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Sunarto Sumoprawiro

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Sunarto Sumoprawiro
Mayor of Surabaya
In office
20 June 1994 – 15 January 2002
Preceded byPoernomo Kasidi
Succeeded byBambang Dwi Hartono
Personal details
Born(1944-11-10)10 November 1944
Surabaya, Japan-occupied Dutch East Indies
Died17 February 2003(2003-02-17) (aged 58)
Melbourne, Australia

Sunarto Sumoprawiro (10 November 1944 – 17 February 2003) was an Indonesian politician and retired army officer who was the mayor of Surabaya between 1994 and 2002.

Biography

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Sumoprawiro was born in Surabaya on 10 November 1944, the fourth children of nine.[1] He served in the Special Forces branch (Kopassus) of the Indonesian Army, retiring with the rank of colonel.[2]

He was first elected as the mayor of Surabaya on 20 June 1994, and was reelected for a second term on 7 February 2000 with the support of the National Awakening Party.[3][4] During his time as mayor, he was also the president of the football club Persebaya.[5] He also came up with the idea for and initiated the construction of the Al-Akbar Mosque, the second largest mosque in Indonesia.[6] In June 2000, he was elected first chairman of the newly formed Association of Indonesia Municipalities, or Indonesian City Governments' Association (APEKSI).[7]

Starting around September 2001, he became sick and was treated in a hospital in Melbourne due to a liver illness for a long period, which resulted in the city council impeaching him for the long absence on 15 January 2002 and he was replaced by his deputy Bambang Dwi Hartono.[3][8]

He died in Austin Hospital of Melbourne on 17 February 2003 after falling into a coma.[3] He was buried at Surabaya's Heroes' Cemetery on 20 February.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Sunarto, Walikota Bermasalah". Panji Masyarakat (in Indonesian). Vol. 38. 1995. Sunarto, anak ' keempat dari 9 bersaudara ... Sunarto arek Suroboyo yang lahir 10 Nopem- ber 1944
  2. ^ "Akhirnya, DPRD Surabaya Berhentikan Walikota". Tempo (in Indonesian). 15 July 2003. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "Meninggal Dunia". Tempo (in Indonesian). 24 February 2003. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  4. ^ Graf, Arndt; Chua, Beng Huat (2008). Port Cities in Asia and Europe. Routledge. pp. 93–94. ISBN 9781135784799.
  5. ^ "Suporter Persebaya Demo Cak Narto". Media Indonesia (in Indonesian). 22 August 2000. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  6. ^ Usmani, Ahmad Rofi' (2016). Jejak-Jejak Islam: Kamus Sejarah dan Peradaban Islam dari Masa ke Masa (in Indonesian). Bentang Bunyan. p. 19. ISBN 9786027888791.
  7. ^ "APEKSI - Sejarah". apeksi.net. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Wali Kota Surabaya Sunarto Dipecat". liputan6.com (in Indonesian). 16 January 2002. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  9. ^ "Sunarto Sumoprawiro Dimakamkan". liputan6.com (in Indonesian). 21 February 2003. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
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