Hartriono B. Sastrowardoyo
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Hartriono Benjamin Sastrowardoyo (born May 19) is a voiceover actor and American
journalist reporting for the Metro section of The Asbury Park Press, as one of its staff writers, specifically Berkeley Township
, but also with a specialty in writing about the U.S. space program and military affairs (among other subjects, he has written about events at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst as well as about various astronauts local to the coverage area, including Garrett Reisman's leave from NASA to work at SpaceX.) Immediately prior to his current beat, he was an education reporter, covering Toms River
-area schools, public and private. He also contributes to other sections, most notably travel ("Destinations"). He was educated at various State University of New York colleges as well as at Hofstra University
, graduating from SUNY Oneonta
in 1990.
newspaper.
From 1990 to 1992, Sastrowardoyo mainly worked as a news clerk on the national and foreign news desks of The New York Times
, although he filled in on occasion at other desks, including book review, culture, metro, obituaries, and science. After leaving the Times in 1992, for ten years he was a freelance writer whose interview subjects included actors and astronauts. In 2001, he was invited to the annual dinner of the Explorers Club in New York City because of his support of the American space program and also because of his website, Space Center Shadowstar (since taken down), devoted to the history of astronautics
(including information on astronauts and astronaut-candidates from the United Kingdom
, Canada
and Indonesia
).
Some of Sastrowardoyo's interviews and profiles of astronauts were published in Spaceflight, the official magazine of the British Interplanetary Society
as well as in BIS' Voyage, aimed at schoolchildren.
From 2002 to 2004, he was editor of Community News, a weekly newspaper in Browns Mills, New Jersey
. For his other print and online publications, please see below.
Sastrowardoyo joined the Asbury Park Press as a reporter in 2004. As the newspaper is a Gannett property, his articles have appeared in other Gannett newspapers, including but not limited to the Courier-Post, Daily Record, and Hattiesburg American.
His articles have also been picked up by the Associated Press as well as verbatim by the Air Force Times. The Philadelphia affiliate of NBC (WCAU TV-10) also picked up one of Sastrowardoyo's articles.
, both on the topic of nonpaying bidders and excuses they give.
Some of Sastrowardoyo's photos appeared in the Third Annual Pemberton Artists Exhibit, held in 2003 at the Pemberton (Township) Library, a branch of the Burlington County Library System.
A photo of F. Story Musgrave, a scientist-astronaut, taken by Sastrowardoyo appears in NASA's Scientist-Astronauts.
He has appeared on Stafford-based WJRZ-FM, 100.1, during the Down The Shore program, talking about school consolidation (particularly on the concerns regarding same in the Toms River Regional/Seaside Park/Seaside Heights and Central Regional school districts) as well as on the then-upcoming Brick and Manchester township school referendums involving capital projects.
His first nonfiction book, Select Passport Stamps of the Caribbean (2009), placed 25th out of 64 entries in the 2009 GuideGecko Writing Contest.
, West Java
, Indonesia) and Teresita M. Sastrowardoyo (born in Maasin, Iloilo
, the Visayas, the Philippines), who were married at Calvary Baptist Church
in New York City
in 1962. One brother, Sabartomo D. Sastrowardoyo (1965–1986), died in an accident while a student at Cornell University
in 1986. Another, Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo
(b. 1963), is an editor, writer and photographer based in New York City.
Sastrowardoyo is a nephew of Soenario (1902–97), Indonesia's minister of foreign affairs from 1953 to 1955; and Subagio Sastrowardoyo
(1924–95), a noted poet, writer, essayist and literary critic. He is also a cousin of Sunaryati Hartono
(b. 1931) and Astrid Susanto
(1936–2006), officials in the Indonesian government; and Marina Joesoef
(b. 1958), an Indonesian artist.
Sastrowardoyo is a first cousin once removed
of the Indonesian actress Dian Sastrowardoyo
(b. 1982).
His family name is derived from sastra (Sanskrit, writings) and wardaya (Sanskrit, heart), so literally means "writings of the heart."
His paternal grandfather, Sutejo Sastrowardoyo (1876–1967), traced the family's ancestry back to 15th century Java.
Society of Professional Journalists
' first-place award for Weekly Spot News Photography, "Another Day in Bordurvia," a front-page Community News photo of a simulated hostage-taking exercise at Fort Dix
. The Exercise Tiger National Foundation presented him with its 2005 Journalism Award for Outstanding Reporting on Veterans Issues and Community Affairs for The Asbury Park Press. In 2008, Sastrowardoyo was part of a team who won a third-place New Jersey Press Association award in the category of Reporting and Writing, Daily, over 60,000 circulation, for coverage of the May 2007 wildfire in Burlington and Ocean counties.
United States
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journalist reporting for the Metro section of The Asbury Park Press, as one of its staff writers, specifically Berkeley Township
Berkeley Township, New Jersey
Berkeley Township is a Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population had increased to a record high of 41,255....
, but also with a specialty in writing about the U.S. space program and military affairs (among other subjects, he has written about events at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst as well as about various astronauts local to the coverage area, including Garrett Reisman's leave from NASA to work at SpaceX.) Immediately prior to his current beat, he was an education reporter, covering Toms River
Toms River, New Jersey
Toms River is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Toms River Township and is the county seat of Ocean County, New Jersey. It is part of a larger Toms River Township...
-area schools, public and private. He also contributes to other sections, most notably travel ("Destinations"). He was educated at various State University of New York colleges as well as at Hofstra University
Hofstra University
Hofstra University is a private, nonsectarian institution of higher learning located in the Village of Hempstead, New York, United States, about east of New York City: less than an hour away by train or car...
, graduating from SUNY Oneonta
State University of New York at Oneonta
The State University of New York College at Oneonta is a four-year liberal arts college in Oneonta, New York, United States, with approximately 5,800 students. The College offers many bachelor's degrees and a number of graduate degrees...
in 1990.
Reporter and editor
Sastrowardoyo began his journalistic career as a writer for his high schoolBrentwood High School (Brentwood, New York)
Brentwood High School is a secondary school in Brentwood, New York. It is one of the largest high schools in New York State, on the southern shore of Suffolk County, Long Island. Richard Loeschner is the current principal.-1951-1980:...
newspaper.
From 1990 to 1992, Sastrowardoyo mainly worked as a news clerk on the national and foreign news desks of The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, although he filled in on occasion at other desks, including book review, culture, metro, obituaries, and science. After leaving the Times in 1992, for ten years he was a freelance writer whose interview subjects included actors and astronauts. In 2001, he was invited to the annual dinner of the Explorers Club in New York City because of his support of the American space program and also because of his website, Space Center Shadowstar (since taken down), devoted to the history of astronautics
Astronautics
Astronautics, and related astronautical engineering, is the theory and practice of navigation beyond the Earth's atmosphere. In other words, it is the science and technology of space flight....
(including information on astronauts and astronaut-candidates from the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
).
Some of Sastrowardoyo's interviews and profiles of astronauts were published in Spaceflight, the official magazine of the British Interplanetary Society
British Interplanetary Society
The British Interplanetary Society founded in 1933 by Philip E. Cleator, is the oldest space advocacy organisation in the world whose aim is exclusively to support and promote astronautics and space exploration.-Structure:...
as well as in BIS' Voyage, aimed at schoolchildren.
From 2002 to 2004, he was editor of Community News, a weekly newspaper in Browns Mills, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. For his other print and online publications, please see below.
Sastrowardoyo joined the Asbury Park Press as a reporter in 2004. As the newspaper is a Gannett property, his articles have appeared in other Gannett newspapers, including but not limited to the Courier-Post, Daily Record, and Hattiesburg American.
His articles have also been picked up by the Associated Press as well as verbatim by the Air Force Times. The Philadelphia affiliate of NBC (WCAU TV-10) also picked up one of Sastrowardoyo's articles.
Writer and photographer
Sastrowardoyo is also a short-story writer and photographer, and has been the subject of articles that appeared in the now-defunct eBay Magazine as well as NewsdayNewsday
Newsday is a daily American newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area...
, both on the topic of nonpaying bidders and excuses they give.
Some of Sastrowardoyo's photos appeared in the Third Annual Pemberton Artists Exhibit, held in 2003 at the Pemberton (Township) Library, a branch of the Burlington County Library System.
A photo of F. Story Musgrave, a scientist-astronaut, taken by Sastrowardoyo appears in NASA's Scientist-Astronauts.
He has appeared on Stafford-based WJRZ-FM, 100.1, during the Down The Shore program, talking about school consolidation (particularly on the concerns regarding same in the Toms River Regional/Seaside Park/Seaside Heights and Central Regional school districts) as well as on the then-upcoming Brick and Manchester township school referendums involving capital projects.
His first nonfiction book, Select Passport Stamps of the Caribbean (2009), placed 25th out of 64 entries in the 2009 GuideGecko Writing Contest.
Voiceover actor
Sastrowardoyo is also a voiceover actor, receiving his training from Voice CoachesFamily
Sastrowardoyo is a son of Sumarsongko H. Sastrowardoyo (born in BandungBandung
Bandung is the capital of West Java province in Indonesia, and the country's third largest city, and 2nd largest metropolitan area in Indonesia, with a population of 7.4 million in 2007. Located 768 metres above sea level, approximately 140 km southeast of Jakarta, Bandung has cooler...
, West Java
West Java
West Java , with a population of over 43 million, is the most populous and most densely populated province of Indonesia. Located on the island of Java, it is slightly smaller in area than densely populated Taiwan, but with nearly double the population...
, Indonesia) and Teresita M. Sastrowardoyo (born in Maasin, Iloilo
Maasin, Iloilo
Maasin is a 4th class municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 30,828 people in 5,395 households.-Barangays:Maasin is politically subdivided into 50 barangays.-External links:**...
, the Visayas, the Philippines), who were married at Calvary Baptist Church
Calvary Baptist Church (Manhattan)
Calvary Baptist Church is located at 123 West 57th Street between the Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue, near Carnegie Hall in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is an independent, non-affiliated church. The senior pastor is Rev. David Paul Epstein, the brother of television personality...
in New York City
New York City
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in 1962. One brother, Sabartomo D. Sastrowardoyo (1965–1986), died in an accident while a student at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
in 1986. Another, Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo
Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo
Rahadyan Timoteo Sastrowardoyo — born 1963 in New York City — is a writer, editor and photographer. He is an American of Indonesian and Filipino ancestry.Sastrowardoyo was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and attended P.S...
(b. 1963), is an editor, writer and photographer based in New York City.
Sastrowardoyo is a nephew of Soenario (1902–97), Indonesia's minister of foreign affairs from 1953 to 1955; and Subagio Sastrowardoyo
Subagio Sastrowardoyo
Subagio Sastrowardoyo was an Indonesian poet, short-story writer, essayist and literary critic. Born in Madiun, East Java, the Dutch East Indies , he was educated at Gadjah Mada University, Cornell University and Yale University...
(1924–95), a noted poet, writer, essayist and literary critic. He is also a cousin of Sunaryati Hartono
Sunaryati Hartono
Prof. Dr. Carolina Felicita Gerardine Sunaryati Hartono, S.H. is an Indonesian attorney, professor of law and government official. She has been vice chairman of the National Ombudsman Commission of Indonesia since 2000.-Delegate and representative:In 1985, as part of the ASEAN Law Association's...
(b. 1931) and Astrid Susanto
Astrid Susanto
Prof. Dr. Maria Antonia Astrid Sunarti Susanto -- deputy chairwoman of Commission I of the Indonesian legislature, the People's Representative Council -- was born 4 January 1936 in Makassar, South Celebes , Dutch East Indies and died on 13 April 2006 in Jakarta...
(1936–2006), officials in the Indonesian government; and Marina Joesoef
Marina Joesoef
Marina Joesoef — born Marina Sastrowardoyo March 24, 1959 in Jakarta, Indonesia — is an Indonesian artist. She is a painter having recent exhibitions in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
(b. 1958), an Indonesian artist.
Sastrowardoyo is a first cousin once removed
Cousin
In kinship terminology, a cousin is a relative with whom one shares one or more common ancestors. The term is rarely used when referring to a relative in one's immediate family where there is a more specific term . The term "blood relative" can be used synonymously and establishes the existence of...
of the Indonesian actress Dian Sastrowardoyo
Dian Sastrowardoyo
Diandra Paramita Sastrowardoyo , more popularly known as Dian Sastro or Dian Sastrowardoyo, is an Indonesian model and actress....
(b. 1982).
His family name is derived from sastra (Sanskrit, writings) and wardaya (Sanskrit, heart), so literally means "writings of the heart."
His paternal grandfather, Sutejo Sastrowardoyo (1876–1967), traced the family's ancestry back to 15th century Java.
Anthologies
- Michael Capuzzo, ed. Cat Caught My Heart: Stories of Wisdom, Hope, and Purrfect Love.(1998) ISBN 0-553-10638-4
- Tom Bunevich, ed. Sign This #2: Your Stories About Our Sports Heroes. (2004) ISBN 0-9700227-2-7
Contributor
- Thomas Burford and Catherine Burford, eds. Celebrity Access - The Directory, 1995-96: Or Where and How To Write The Rich and Famous. (1995)
- Okuda, Michael; Okuda, Denise; and Mirek, Debbie. The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide To The Future, Updated and Expanded Edition. (1999) ISBN 0-671-03475-8
Awards
In 2003, Sastrowardoyo won the New JerseyNew Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
Society of Professional Journalists
Society of Professional Journalists
The Society of Professional Journalists , formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is one of the oldest organizations representing journalists in the United States. It was established in April 1909 at DePauw University, and its charter was designed by William Meharry Glenn. The ten founding members of...
' first-place award for Weekly Spot News Photography, "Another Day in Bordurvia," a front-page Community News photo of a simulated hostage-taking exercise at Fort Dix
Fort Dix, New Jersey
JB MDL Dix , better known as Fort Dix, is a United States Army base located approximately south-southeast of Trenton, New Jersey. Dix is under the jurisdiction of the United States Army Reserve Command...
. The Exercise Tiger National Foundation presented him with its 2005 Journalism Award for Outstanding Reporting on Veterans Issues and Community Affairs for The Asbury Park Press. In 2008, Sastrowardoyo was part of a team who won a third-place New Jersey Press Association award in the category of Reporting and Writing, Daily, over 60,000 circulation, for coverage of the May 2007 wildfire in Burlington and Ocean counties.