Sri has been a paraplegic since she was 23 years old and she doesn’t accept that having a disability means you don’t have a life.
“I want to show other Indonesians and the rest of the world that disabled people with countries like mine can live productive, independent and happy lives.”
Over the course of 3 weeks, Sri traveled on her adapted motorbike from Jakarta to Bali, to change the way people look at disabilities.
A devastating spinal cord injury
“When I ride my motorbike I feel free,” she says. “It’s ironic that it’s also a motorbike ride that took my freedom away.” After Sri was injured in 1997, she was depressed and didn’t leave her home for 10 years, until one fateful day when she met another friend in a wheelchair who had an adapted motorbike. “I saw a light at the end of the tunnel,” she said. It all changed for Sri once she got her own. With her independence restored, she has a job, she goes out with friends and lives well.
“I’m happy. I want others who are in a wheelchair like me to know they can be happy too.”
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