[3] During his military education in the academy, Yogi seized guns from the Japanese forces in 1945 and was put in charge at the Northern Bandung Front in 1946.
[5] After his graduation from the academy, Yogi became part of the Prince Diponegoro Division in Magelang and was stationed to quell the Madiun Affair.
He stayed in South Sumatra for a year later as a chief officer until he was instructed to attend the School of Artillery in India.
He was assigned overseas shortly after and became assistant to the military attaché in London Lieutenant Colonel Sutojo on 4 August 1956.
[13] On 21 January 1976,[14] Yogi was made as the Assistant for Politics, Strategy and General Planning to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.
[15] In accordance to his regeneration plan, Yogi held a post called the Chief of the Administrative Staff inside the Department of Defense and Security in 1980.
The control over personnel, logistics, or finance was transferred from Yogi Supardi to Benny Moerdani, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces at that time.
[22] Yogi became active at the Union of Retired Army Soldiers (Persatuan Purnawirawan Angkatan Darat).
[25] He was buried at the Semaki Heroes Cemetery on 18 September in Yogyakarta with a ceremony led by the Commander of the Diponegoro Military Region Mochamad Effendi.
[25] Olga became one of the victims of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 that crashed into a rice field and burst into flames while landing at Adisutjipto International Airport on 7 March 2007.
[25] Their youngest child and only daughter, Prisca Marina Haryogi Supardi, was married to Mangkunegara IX, Duke of Mangkunegaran.