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In the 1990s, I was among those Indonesians who demanded and celebrated the departure of our own autocrat, Suharto, and I joined the new government when he left.

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

If you don't pay bribes, people think you're odd. It's very sad. I cannot say that I'm proud to be an Indonesian. This is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

I still receive very regular death threats that make it impossible for me to return to Indonesia. I think I could get in, but I don't think I could get out again.

I am a citizen of the world.

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

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to make a film documenting and dramatizing the struggle to organize a union in the aftermath of the Suharto dictatorship.