Background
He was born in Semarang, on 11 April 1961 as the first child of six children in the Wiharto Arismunandar family.
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Satrio Arismunandar
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He graduated from 14th National Middle School in East-Jakarta in 1980, and graduated from a major in electronics from the University of Indonesia (UI) in 1989. His father, a middle officer in the Indonesian airforce, died from disease just ten days before Satrio graduated from UI.
Career
He founded the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) in 1994, as an organization that opposed the Suharto regime. Its involvement in the labor movement led to him being forced to step down from the daily newspaper Kompas in 1995. Satrio"s activities as a student were varied.
After working from 1986 to 1995 as a journalist, he went back to do a Master"s degree in Defence Studies at the University of Indonesia, and graduated in August, 2000.
His thesis was on The role of student journalism in the student movement in 1998: A case study of the bulletin Move! at the time of stopping president Suharto, which became the material for a book Since he was a student, Satrio had already worked as a freelance writer (1981–1986), journalist for the daily Harian Pelita (1986–1988), the daily Kompas (1988–1995), the magazine Doctorate&R (1997–2000).
As a journalist in Kompas, he became a specialist on the politics of the Middle East and international conflict, after reporting from the Gulf War in Iraq and the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He now works in television
Membership
He was a member of the Democratic Student Body, a head of the Electronics Students Association, member of the nature lover association, editing the campus newspaper and active in the local mosque.
