Hartriono B. Sastrowardoyo

Infobox journalist


name = Hartriono B. Sastrowardoyo
| birthname = Hartriono Benjamin Sastrowardoyo
birth_date = May 19
birth_place = New York City
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occupation = journalist
alias = Hart Sastrowardoyo
gender = male
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family = Sumarsongko (father), Teresita (mother), Rahadyan (brother), Sabartomo (brother, deceased)
spouse = Jennifer Cyran (fiancée)
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relatives = Soenario, Subagio Sastrowardoyo (uncles); Sunaryati Hartono, Astrid Susanto, Marina Joesoef (cousins); Dian Sastrowardoyo (first cousin once removed)
ethnic = American of Indonesian (Javanese) and Filipino (Hiligaynon) ancestry
religion = Christian
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credits = "The Asbury Park Press"; "Community News", Browns Mills, N.J.
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Hartriono Benjamin Sastrowardoyo (born May 19) 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.

Career

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 [Andrew Robinson] [ [http://www.trektoday.com/news/120301_03.shtml TrekToday - Downey & Seymour Remember Days Past ] ] and astronauts. In 2001, he was invited to the annual dinner of the Explorers Club [ [http://www.sfi.org/cq/cq106.pdf Starfleet "Communique" 106, 2001] ] 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.

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."

Trivia

* Sastrowardoyo was a character in a short story by Rich Handley, "Grateful, the Dead." [ Spear, Gayl J., ed. "Breaking Boundaries: An Anthology of Horror and Dark Science Fiction." Xlibris Corp., 2002. ISBN 1401035744 ISBN 978-1401035747] .

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 [ [http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060819/NEWS01/608190307/1002 Drumsta, Raymond. "Ithaca's Troubled Waters: Fall Creek swimming hole alluring but deceptively dangerous." "The Ithaca Journal", 19 August 2006.] Accessed 27 August 2006.] . Another, Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo (b. 1963) [Sastrowardoyo, Rahadyan. "Babylon 5" Enters Its Final Stages." "The New York Times", 19 July 1998.] [ [http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/jun/01us.htm Sastrowardoyo, Rahadyan. "Flashpoints That Define Or Break Apart a Community." Rediff.com, 01 June 1999] ] , 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.

Bibliography

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

Online Publications

* "AuctionBytes-Update" [ [http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y200/m04/abu0012/s06 No Thanks, I’m on a No-Spam Diet! ] ]
* "Paradigm" [http://outer-rim.lweb.net/paradigm/archives.html#hartriono]

Periodicals

0-9

* "40°74°," Neptune, N.J.

A-I

* "Autograph News"
* "Autograph Times," Los Angeles, Calif.
* "The Franklin Square Bulletin," Franklin Square, N.Y.
* "Ibn Qirtaiba," Australia [ [http://www.malcolm.id.au/iq/iq-63.html#Article Ibn Qirtaiba, issue 63 ] ]
* "Island Gazette" (now "the Ocean County Gazette"), Toms River, N.J.

J-R

* "Kids' Highway," Bryan, Texas
* "Lacey Beacon," (and other Times-Beacon community weeklies), Lacey Township, N.J.
* "Lakewood Times" (and sister Micromedia Publishing newspaper "Manchester Times"), Lakehurst, N.J.
* "Model Rocket News", Penrose, Colo.
* "New Egypt Press" (and other Journal Register Company community weeklies), Plumsted Township, N.J.
* "New Providence-Berkeley Heights Independent Press," Clark, N.J.
* "Nth Degree," Richmond, Va. [ [http://www.nthzine.com/fiction.html?archiveDisplay=20020831 Nth Degree - Fiction ] ]
* "Ocean County Observer," (now the weekly "Observer Reporter", and other associated, regional "Community Reporter" weeklies) Toms River, N.J.
* "Ocean County Review," Seaside Heights, N.J.
* "Peanuts Collector," Bellingham, Wash.
* "Pow Wow," Brentwood, N.Y.
* "Reunions Magazine," Milwaukee, Wisc.

S-Z

* "Southern Ocean Reporter" (this and other "Reporters" are regional sections of "The Asbury Park Press" but are counted as distinct weeklies in contests of the Society of Professional Journalists), Ocean County, N.J.
* "State Times," Oneonta, N.Y.
* "The Trentonian," Trenton, N.J.
* "Weird N.J.," Bloomfield, N.J.

Others forthcoming

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. [ [http://www.njspj.org/contest/03%20winners/weekly.htm New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists website] ] The Exercise Tiger National Foundation [ [http://www.exercisetiger.org/ Exercise Tiger National Foundation website] ] 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.

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