January 25

Early this year, ISDI karate participated in the S.K.G. (Shotokan Karate Germany) Cup 2025 competition held on January 25, 2025 at the Cempaka Putih Sports Hall. 8 ISDI karate athletes, namely: Alfeus, Alice, Egi, Eko, Juan, Jonathan, Michael and Yona, are ready to compete with other school teams. These karate athletes have prepared themselves for training well in advance to compete with their opponents and they are very enthusiastic about participating in the karate competition.

The S.K.G Cup competition was attended by many schools that have karate extracurricular activities, in addition, 8 ISDI karate athletes competed with the Asih Budi school. Wow... today ISDI karate athletes are great and have won 6 gold medals and 2 silver medals. The karate athletes with 6 gold medals are: Alfeus, Alice, Juan, Jonathan, Michael and Yona, while the karate athletes who won silver medals are: Egi and Eko. Thank you to the 8 ISDI karate athletes for winning the S.K.G. competition. Cup 2025 for their efforts and thanks to the S.K.G competition committee team. Cup 2025, hopefully we can meet another opportunity.

Yeaayy... ISDI was invited by SMP Marsudirini Jakarta to do activities together with the theme Spreading Love and Establishing Brotherhood with Ikatan Sindroma Down Indonesia (ISDI).

The activities were decorating cookies, performing modern dance, performing karate, solo keyboard by ISDI CoH students, namely Eko. When decorating cookies, friends from SMP Marsudirini also helped the students of CoH ISDI in decorating cookies and had extraordinary fun, besides the performances from the students of CoH ISDI, there were also performances from friends from SMP Marsudirini... Wow... we even joined in singing and dancing to the front with all the friends there.

Then when performing modern dance, our students together with friends from SMP Marsudirini also did modern dance. Until we saw one of the students of SMP Marsudirini was so amazed that she shed tears because she appreciated the performance of the students of CoH ISDI.

Thank you to Principal Marsudirini, teachers and friends of SMP Marsudirini who have invited us to do activities together. Hopefully we can meet again on another occasion to do activities together.

The donation handover ceremony from Tugu Insurance in collaboration with the Kitabisa.ORG Foundation provided donations to the Indonesian Down Syndrome Foundation in the form of bocee sports facilities, laptops and others. The donation handover from Tugu Insurance and the Kitabisa.ORG Foundation was represented by Mrs. Nashita as Chairperson of ISDI.

During the Bocee sports demonstration, the CoH ISDI students were very happy and the sports demonstration was also attended by the parents of the students. Representatives from Tugu Insurance and the Kitabisa.ORG also attended, they were very enthusiastic about doing activities together and giving encouragement to ISDI friends.

We are very grateful to Tugu Insurance and the Kitabisa.ORG Foundation for their donations, we will use them as best we can and we will train ISDI students to prepare for competitions with other people with disabilities.