Career / Experience

I have 15 years professional experience as an Indonesian interpreter and translator producing high quality work across a broad range of domains. My specialist areas are government/politics, law, education/training, the media, business, the arts. I have also completed projects in community development and project management. I also provide orientation briefings, advice and strategies to businesses and individuals from both countries.

I have spent 15 years living and working in Indonesia, including 6 years experience in World Bank funded training projects in the public sector (Indonesian Airforce, Research and Technology and Public Works) and 4 years managerial experience in the education services and marketing sector. I have taught translating and interpreting at the University of Western Sydney and Petersham TAFE. In early 2003 I completed the Judicial Training Program, University of Melbourne, conducted by the Asian Law Group for Australian Legal Resources International, and have since interpreted for various parties of senior visiting Indonesian judges and public prosecutors. I have also convened a one-day seminar at UNSW on interpreters and legal professionals working together and have been twice asked to speak to members of the Sydney Refugee Review Tribunal on professional collaboration with interpreters. I frequently interpret at tribunals, local and district courts up to the federal court level.

I have provided translation and interpreting services for multinational agencies, Australian government, corporate and private clients. Clients include the World Bank (Conflict Resolution – see * below), Australian Federal Police, Legal Aid NSW, NSW Crime Commission, Asian Law Group, Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, Autore Group (pearling), George Lombard Consultancy, the ABC (Four Corners), SBS (Dateline) and commercial TV current affairs programs (including live to air translation of Suharto’s resignation speech and the sentencing of Amrozi, the ‘Bali bomber’.) For over a decade I have taught Indonesian language and cultural studies in the 5 public Sydney universities that offered Indonesian Studies, and at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW. I continue to research in this area.

My translation work into both languages in the arts is informed by extensive involvement in the literary and performing arts in both countries. My literary/arts translations include various poems by Rendra and the prize-winning collection of short stories by Seno Gumira Ajidarma’s Eyewitness (Imprint Press, 1995, in collaboration with Jan Lingard and Bibi Langker, awarded the SBS Dinny O’Hearn Prize for Literary Translation in the 1997 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards), and ‘The Test’, Foeza ME Hutabarat, in Menagerie 5, (Lontar Press, Jakarta, 2003). Painting catalogues translated include Crossing Boundaries: A Window to Twentieth Century Indonesian Art; Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia and Yan Suryana: Crossing the Sea of Colours. My film work has included subtitling for films Australian (Lucky Miles, The Golden Sow) and Indonesian (The Mirage –dir. Slamet Rahardjo).I also translated into Indonesian the play script of Sidetrack Performance Group director Don Mamouney The Legend of Sawung Galing (Kembalinya Legenda Sawung Galing), a 2.5 hr drama performed on a highly successful 5city tour of Indonesia (2004).

* to view my translation editing work in one of the World Bank Conflict Resolution reports visit: http://www.conflictanddevelopment.org/resources/documents/Case%20Study/200510171025300.Land%20Cases%20(compiled)%20eng.pdf

   Certification / Accreditation

English > Indonesian

NAATI

Indonesian > English

NAATI