The Surabaya Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) prefers sustaining a sick mayor rather than granting the mayor’s authorization to a healthier person. This is witnessed in the case of Sunarto Sumoprawiro, Surabaya Mayor who has been hospitalized in Australia for two months. “The DPRD Speaker refused the replacement of Sunarto by his deputy mayor,” said East Java DPRD member from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (