Hartriono B. Sastrowardoyo

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Hartriono B. Sastrowardoyo
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Birth name Hartriono Benjamin Sastrowardoyo
Born May 19, 1969
Birth place New York City
Circumstances
Occupation journalist
Other names Hart Sastrowardoyo
Family Sumarsongko (father), Teresita (mother), Rahadyan (brother), Sabartomo (brother, deceased)
Spouse Jennifer Cyran (fiancée)
Notable relatives Soenario, Subagio Sastrowardoyo (uncles); Sunaryati Hartono, Astrid Susanto, Marina Joesoef (cousins); Dian Sastrowardoyo (first cousin once removed)
Ethnicity American of Indonesian (Javanese) and Filipino (Hiligaynon) ancestry
Religious belief(s) Christian
Notable credit(s) The Asbury Park Press; Community News, Browns Mills, N.J.

Hartriono Benjamin Sastrowardoyo (born May 19, 1969) is an American journalist reporting for the Metro section of The Asbury Park Press, as one of its Education reporters, specifically the Toms River-area schools, public and private. Though Sastrowardoyo was born in the Morningside Heights section of New York City, he considers Brentwood, Long Island, his hometown. He was educated at various State University of New York colleges as well as at Hofstra University, graduating from SUNY Oneonta, in 1990.

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[edit] Career

[edit] Reporter and editor

Sastrowardoyo began his journalistic career as a writer for his high school newspaper.

From 1990 to 1992, Sastrowardoyo mainly worked 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[1][2] and astronauts. In 2001, he was invited to the annual dinner of the Explorers Club[3] 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.

[edit] 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 Newsday.

[edit] Trivia

  • Sastrowardoyo was a character in a short story by Rich Handley, Grateful, the Dead. [4].

[edit] Family

Sastrowardoyo is a son of Sumarsongko H. Sastrowardoyo (born in Bandung, 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[5]. Another, Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo (b. 1963)[6][7], 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. 1959), 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 (1876-1968), traced the family's ancestry back to 15th century Java.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Online Publications

  • AuctionBytes-Update[8]
  • Paradigm[9]

[edit] Periodicals

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[edit] Awards

In 2003, Sastrowardoyo won the New Jersey 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.[12] The Exercise Tiger National Foundation[13] 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.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Andrew Robinson
  2. ^ TrekToday - Downey & Seymour Remember Days Past
  3. ^ Starfleet Communique 106, 2001
  4. ^ Spear, Gayl J., ed. Breaking Boundaries: An Anthology of Horror and Dark Science Fiction. Xlibris Corp., 2002. ISBN 1401035744 ISBN 978-1401035747
  5. ^ Drumsta, Raymond. "Ithaca's Troubled Waters: Fall Creek swimming hole alluring but deceptively dangerous." The Ithaca Journal, 19 August 2006. Accessed 27 August 2006.
  6. ^ Sastrowardoyo, Rahadyan. "Babylon 5 Enters Its Final Stages." The New York Times, 19 July 1998.
  7. ^ Sastrowardoyo, Rahadyan. "Flashpoints That Define Or Break Apart a Community." Rediff.com, 01 June 1999
  8. ^ No Thanks, I’m on a No-Spam Diet!
  9. ^ http://outer-rim.lweb.net/paradigm/archives.html#hartriono
  10. ^ Ibn Qirtaiba, issue 63
  11. ^ Nth Degree - Fiction
  12. ^ New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists website
  13. ^ Exercise Tiger National Foundation website