Sunarto Sumoprawiro
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 Sumoprawiro was born in Surabaya on 10 November 1944, the fourth children of nine. He served in the Special Forces branch ( Kopassus) of the Indonesian Army, retiring with the rank of colonel. 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. During his time as mayor, he also was the president of the football club Persebaya. He also came up with the idea for and initiated the construction of the Al-Akbar Mosque, the second largest mosque in Indonesia. In June 2000, he was elected first chairman of the newly formed Association of Indonesia Municipalities or Indonesian City Governments' Association ( APEKSI). Starting around September 2001, he became sick and was treated in a hospital in Melb ...
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List Of Mayors Of Surabaya
The mayor of Surabaya is an elected politician who is responsible of governing the city of Surabaya. The first mayor of Surabaya was Mr. A. Meijroos, who governed the city during the Dutch colonisation period from 1916 to 1920. List ;Legends Acting Mayor In the case of government, a regional head who applies for leave or temporarily resigns from his position with the central government, then the Ministry of Home Affairs (Indonesia), Minister of Home Affairs prepares a replacement who is a bureaucrat in the regional government or even a deputy mayor, including when the mayor's position is in a transition period. Notes References

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