He served as Minister of Public Housing in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet between October 2009 and October 2011. He was also a member of the House of Representatives between 2004 and 2009 and was re-elected again in 2009.[2] On 17 October 2011, Suharso Monoarfa resigned from his post as the Minister of Public Housing of the Republic of Indonesia, for personal reasons.[3][4]
On 19 January 2015, he was elected by President Joko Widodo as one of the members of the Presidential Advisory Council.[5]