She makes a living doing part-time jobs, appearing on Japanese television and has served as a judge for a beauty contest, as in the Miss International 2005 pageant held in Tokyo.

[6] In January 1992, Dewi Sukarno became involved in a much-publicised altercation at a party in Aspen, Colorado, United States with fellow international socialite and heiress, Minnie Osmeña.

The photo-book, while not distributed in Indonesia, was immediately banned by the New Order government, and many Indonesians felt offended by what they perceived to be a disgrace of late President Sukarno's name and legacy.

[3] In 1997, the New York Daily News published anonymous rumors that Sukarno had been involved in a "hair-pulling tiff" at a Halloween party with Kaethe Schuchter, a companion of fraudulent money manager Martin Frankel.

[12] In the aftermath of the controversial launch of the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 satellite in April 2009, Sukarno was invited to comment by Japanese media, since her late husband had managed to maintain favorable relations with North Korea during his reign.

A nearby police officer stationed outside the home of Tarō Asō prevented further escalation and the protesters left without seeking compensation for damages.

[16] Tokyo police investigated a complaint against Sukarno in January 2014, following her appearance on the TBS Television show Okusama wa Monster 2 where she had allegedly slapped a fellow guest.

[20][21] During a broadcast of TV Asahi's Abema Prime, Sukarno opinioned that Motoya's beliefs and actions fell under his right to freedom of expression and redirected attention towards the issues of Tibetan sovereignty and the Senkaku Islands and South China Sea disputes.

[22] On October 28, 2020, Sukarno issued an apology for remarks she had made on the Kansai TV variety show Mune-ippai Summit!, where she linked female infertility to abortions.

[23] In July 2023, Sukarno defended the late Johnny Kitagawa from child sexual abuse allegations on Twitter, tweeting that he "loved the children from his agency as if they were his own" and that the criticism of him was "bringing disgrace to Japan.

"[5] As of 2004, Sukarno had worked with the Japanese Red Cross Society and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and expressed the wish to help refugees as well as people living under regimes like North Korea.

[5] After the January 2008 death of her husband's successor, Suharto, Sukarno made appearances in the news media, blaming him for instituting a repressive regime and likening him to Cambodian despot Pol Pot.