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Suti Karno Finds a New Calling, Now Busy Managing a Disability Foundation

Suti Karno Finds a New Calling, Now Busy Managing a Disability Foundation

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Suti Karno Finds a New Calling, Now Busy Managing a Disability Foundation

After three years as a person with a disability, actress Suti Karno now dedicates her life to a noble cause. No longer active in the entertainment world, she devotes her time and energy to empowering the disability community through a foundation she established with her colleagues.

The foundation, named the Indonesian Disability Solidarity Foundation (YASDI), was officially established last April. Through this foundation, Suti Karno is determined to provide a platform for people with disabilities so that the general public becomes more aware of the extraordinary abilities they possess.

"Coincidentally, I've been a person with a disability for 3 years, right? So, I am getting closer to children with disabilities. That's why I have a foundation. It's called the Indonesian Disability Solidarity Foundation," said Suti Karno when met in the Kapten Tendean area of South Jakarta recently.

"Where we operate in the disability field, I provide opportunities for children, my colleagues to perform in public so that the public becomes more aware of them, that they are capable," added Suti Karno.

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This is not a sudden decision; Rano Karno's younger sibling revealed that establishing a foundation has been a long-time dream of theirs.

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If in the past they aspired to build an orphanage for orphans, now their focus has shifted to creating a platform for children with disabilities after they directly engaged and interacted with them.

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"Yes, actually, it's like this. I used to really want to have an orphanage, I really wanted to have a foundation. But back then, we only knew about orphans, because that's what most of us were familiar with. After I interacted with children with disabilities, I really wanted to have a place for children with disabilities," they said.

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Although still in its infancy, YASDI, founded by eleven people, has been trusted to collaborate with several government agencies. Suti Karno himself serves as a mentor in the foundation.

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"There are friends, you know. We are eleven. Yes. We are eleven people. Eh, one of us, I am the mentor, not the leader. One of my mentors is also from Jayabaya University, Mrs. Yulia. And we will have our office at Jayabaya University, like that," she explained.

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For him, limited physical conditions do not stop his steps to make a positive impact. He believes that everything can be done if it is based on a sincere intention from the heart.

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"Yes, we must be very grateful, always grateful. That this, eh, my leg being amputated does not stop, eh, my movement. Although I don't have a leg, I still move with my heart," he concluded.