 Three years later, she decided to move to Jakarta and entered her youth club, Tangkas Alfamart.She joined the national badminton team of Indonesia in 2002 together with Natalia Poluakan, her longtime friend from Manado.When she and Poluakan won the women's doubles title in Pekan Olahraga Nasional (National Games), Richard Mainaky noticed her game and invited her to play in mixed doubles with Nova Widianto.