Programs currently running
Most of the programs run inside Kampung Sitanala, Kelurahan Karang Anyar, Kecamatan Neglasari, Kota Tangerang — a settlement of people affected by leprosy and their families, home to approximately 1,400 households or 4,500 residents, and the location of the foundation’s office. The seven programs below put into practice the aims of the foundation set out in Article 2 of the Akta Pendirian: the social, humanitarian and religious fields.
Edu Center — Tutoring
Purpose and background
Children growing up in Kampung Sitanala face layered obstacles to learning: their families’ limited means, cramped study space at home, and the stigma still attached to the village. This program exists to keep those children in education and give them the learning support they do not get at home.
Tutoring at the Edu Center Agape Hijau Abadi began in August 2018 and runs Monday to Saturday as an after-school activity. Subjects include computing, Indonesian, English, mathematics, Korean, piano, voice, drums and guitar.
Participation has grown steadily: about 120 children in 2019, about 150 in 2023 and 2024, and about 260 in 2025 after around 80 new children joined in July.
This program carries out the social activities set out in the Akta Pendirian: providing education and educational assistance to children in the foundation’s neighborhood.
Sitanala Children’s Library
Purpose and background
Many children in Kampung Sitanala do not own their school textbooks, and there is no quiet space at home to do their homework.
The children’s library in Kampung Sitanala opened in February 2024. School textbooks are kept in the library so that children without their own can still study, and computers are available for schoolwork.
The library has become where the children gather after school — reading, doing homework and studying together. It is also the only air-conditioned room in the neighborhood that is open to them.
Scholarships and School Supplies
Purpose and background
Families in Kampung Sitanala face severe financial constraints, and more than a few children have had to leave school because of the cost.
On the second Saturday of every month the foundation hands over educational support to about 50 children of Kampung Sitanala so that they can stay in school. It also eases the family’s day-to-day needs.
School supplies, personal necessities for girls, and snacks are distributed alongside the support.
Football and Taekwondo Classes
Purpose and background
Children in Kampung Sitanala have few chances to take part in regular sport outside their neighborhood. The sports classes give them room to grow up healthy, practise discipline and build confidence.
The football class began in September 2021 and trains every Sunday. The team is called Sita BUG — Sita comes from the place name Sitanala. Around 90 children were taking part in 2022.
The taekwondo class began in March 2022 and trains every Tuesday and Thursday under a professional instructor. The children sit grading examinations from time to time.
Monthly Community Health Outreach
Purpose and background
Kampung Sitanala formed around the Sitanala leprosy hospital. Some elderly residents live with permanent physical impairments, and the stigma still attached to the village’s name makes some reluctant to seek health care outside their own neighborhood.
The foundation holds a community health outreach on the fourth Saturday of each month in RW 013. It provides free check-ups and treatment on the day, assisted by local volunteer doctors and nurses and by volunteer barbers. The foundation does not operate a clinic or any permanent health facility.
The activity began in 2017, paused in June 2020, and resumed in January 2022. As an indication of scale, 248 residents were served on a single day (25 May 2024). Cumulatively, by 2025 about 1,400 residents had been seen through this activity.
Outside these days, the foundation provided eleven prosthetic legs to residents during 2021, held vaccination rounds together with the local public health centre in September and October 2021, and began village disinfection in January 2022.
Peduli Sesama — Resident and Disaster Relief
Purpose and background
This program carries out the humanitarian activities set out in the Akta Pendirian: assistance to families in need and to victims of natural disasters.
Inside Kampung Sitanala, the foundation distributed emergency relief three times during 2020 in the COVID-19 period, reaching about 1,500 households each time. It also repaired a disused health post building in June 2022 and rebuilt residents’ homes after a fire in September 2022.
Beyond Sitanala, the foundation sent relief to the disaster areas of Palu and Donggala five times over four months in 2018, supported 50 Afghan refugee families in Bogor in July 2020, and assisted residents affected by the Cianjur earthquake in West Java between November 2022 and March 2023.
In October 2024 the foundation ran service activities with a supporting community from Korea in Lampung Selatan — a bazaar for residents, children’s activities, and repainting residents’ houses.
Children’s Libraries in Other Regions
Purpose and background
Limited access to books is not only a Sitanala problem. In many villages children grow up with no library and no reading books at home.
Building on its experience running the library in Sitanala, the foundation opened its first regional children’s library in August 2022 in Siantar, North Sumatra.
A second opened in July 2025 in Lampung. Both provide reading books and learning support for the children around them.
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