Suharso

[1] Suharso was born in Ampel district, Boyolali Regency, Central Java, Dutch East Indies on 13 May 1912, at the foot of Mount Merbabu.

[2] The family partly owed their position and had land ownership in the village from Suharso's grandfather's services to the Surakarta Sunanate.

[12] Suharso gained attention and support from the government of newly independent Indonesia, and in 1950 he got special funding to travel to England to research Orthopedics and Prosthetics at a higher level.

[14] A 1953 newspaper article noted that the rehabilitation centre had roughly 400 patients and that it offered a number of retraining programs for different trades.

[15] In 1954, with an expansion of government pensions and social assistance for members of the Armed Forces, Suharso's Rehabilitation Centre was placed under the Ministry of Social Affairs[16] and a new facility specifically for children (the Yayasan Pemeliharaan Anak-anak Cacad) was opened as well,[17] followed by an Orthopedic clinic in the following year.

[18] In the 1960s, Suharso continued to expand his efforts to build national support for disabled Indonesians who were not able to access the centre's services.