April 26, 2016 edition

AGUS believes that luck has been on his side. One April morning in 1997, right before he left for his interview at Spandershoeve Restaurant in Hilversum, his Dutch permanent resident card came in the mail. "The first thing they asked me when I sat down at the interview was: Do you have a resident permit?"
It might have been luck that landed Agus-who at that time had no formal cooking experience-in the first Indonesian kitchen to be awarded a Michelin star, the most coveted attribute in the culinary world. Ultimately, though, it was just hard work, determination and a total passion for food that have made him the most visible chef of Indonesian food in the Netherlands.

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April 5, 2016 edition

RUSTONO will never forget that special moment, some three years back, on a flight from Japan to Indonesia with his mother Paryumi. Up in the air, his mother reminisced about Rustono's life-long dream of flying.
Rustono smiled, recalling the time when, as a boy, he tended his neighbor's buffalos in a village some 25 kilometers from the town of Grobogan in Central Java. Lying on the back of a buffalo, he watched a tiny plane up in the sky. "I dreamed of flying right away," Rustono told Tempo English in an interview two weeks ago. Boy Rustono imagined himself flying to many countries.

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March 15, 2016 edition

Nani Puspasari's days have recently been hectic. "I'm in the middle of a deadline," she texted Tempo a few weeks ago, as she tended to a photo-shoot for her caf project. Most of her work has been linked to her passion, which is art. Which is why she enjoys living in Melbourne, Australia where her artwork has flourished.
Nani, 29, is fortunate that her livelihood is also a passion that has earned her awards and acknowledgements. In 2008, her paintings won the Bank of Queensland Encouragement Awards, then five years later, her illustrations were shortlisted for the Create Design Award by Desktop magazine in Melbourne. Last year, her works were also shortlisted for the 2015 Premio Combat Prize (graphic arts) in Italy. "My favorite is the Silver Illustrator Australia Award 2013," she told Tempo. It was an illustration for the cover of a book written by Indonesian writer who also lives in Melbourne, Lily Yulianti Farid, Ayahmu Bulan, Engkau Matahari (Your Father is the Moon, You are the Sun).

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