(Sumatra 1924) is a Poet of the generation of 1945. He worked in Indonesia as a journalist and as a teacher at the National Academy for Theatre in Jakarta. He was chairman of the National Council of Culture. From 1967 to 1976 he was imprisoned under Souharto's regime. From 1982 to 1990 he was a professor at Leiden University. After that he lived respectively in Pakistan, Paris and Jakarta. He now lives in the Netherlands. In 1990 Bloem op een rots (Flower on a Rock; poems) was published; in 1996 De oude tijger (The Old Tiger, short stories). The bilingual collection of stories Lembah Kekal/Eeuwige Vallei (Eternal Valley) was published in October 2004 in Jakarta on the occasion of his 80th birthday. At this moment a film portrait is being made. In October 2006 he was Awarded with the South East Asain Write Award in Bangkok.

(1948, Amsterdam) has a Moluccan father and a Dutch mother. In the 1970s he was a schoolteacher for five years. Since 1982 he has been active as an actor, director and writer. Round 1990 he was a wellknown Dutch person for a time for the role of Gus which he played in a Dutch hospital soap. Since 1998 Apituley has been working mainly as a storyteller with stories he writes himself. He loans his voice to radio and tv commercials and plays bass guitar in an R&R band and a jazz/R&B/Brazil band.