Rantetana was born in the town of Makale in Tana Toraja Regency on 24 July 1955.

After completing high school at a Catholic institution in 1974, she obtained a diploma in general care before joining the Indonesian military in 1979.

[1] She was further promoted to rear admiral in June 2013, when she was assigned to the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs as an expert on ideology and constitutional affairs.

[4] She was buried in a military-accompanied traditional Toraja funeral, where her body was placed in a hollowed out cavity 30 meters up a cliff accompanied by salvo shots.

[5][6] She had five children, and she took part in the construction of the Jesus Buntu Burake statue in Tana Toraja.