Surakarta mayor under fire for signing deal with Unicef.

Local legislators are attempting to oust Surakarta Mayor Slamet Suryanto in Central Java for "unlawfully" signing a cooperation agreement with the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef).

Slamet signed the agreement on Feb. 13 in Jakarta despite an earlier decision by the city legislative council to suspend the cooperation due to the administration's lack of preparedness to carry out the development assistance programs to be initiated by Unicef.

The signing means the mayor has defied the decision issued by a special committee of the council and thus disregarded the legislature, legislators said.

Committee chairman Heru S. Notonegoro said the council …