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I came across the Indonesian genocide in 2001, when I found myself making a film in a community of survivors. They were plantation workers, and it turned out they were struggling to organize a union.

Indonesia was colonized for 350 years. We lost our mind-set for entrepreneurship. We only become workers.

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.

I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.

I am still an Indonesian citizen.

I'm willing to work with all parties to reform Indonesia.

When millions of dollars and thousands of humanitarian workers poured into Indonesia, we quickly faced the challenge of coordinating our own bureaucracy with the multitudes of approaches and priorities the donor community wanted to pursue.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.