Korea.net has launched a new collaborative project with its honorary reporters around the world. Each honorary reporter will write a story on the same topic, but from each of their own home cities. The stories will then be shared with our community of Korea.net readers.

For the first subject in the series, Korea.net asked our honorary reporters to send in a touching story from their home communities. Here's our 12th story on this subject, from Indonesia.



Becoming a champion in international competition has turned Stephanie Handojo into one of Indonesia's true treasures.

Down syndrome has not limited her from reaching great achievements and from inspiring others.

She holds many Paralympic accomplishments. The most outstanding moment was when she became an Olympic torchbearer as a representative for Indonesia during the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay.

Stephanie is also well-known for her ability at playing the piano. She recorded an album with 22 songs, over 2 hours, at the Indonesian World Records Museum.

More than that, as an energetic and productive young woman, Stephanie is also an entrepreneur, running a chain of laundromats that are supervised by her mother.

In all, Stephanie is a true example of limitations not limiting people to just one thing. They can become something!

By Stephanie Pradnyaparamita
Korea.net Honorary Reporter
Photo: http://www.specialolympics.org

http://koreanetblog.blogspot.kr/2017/03/stephanie-handojo.html