He started his first documentary, Village Goat Takes The Beating, about Aceh human rights violations, in 1999.

His three documentaries on Aceh have been released on DVD for international distribution by Monash University (Between Three World Project, 2005).

In 2005, he finished his master's degree in visual cultural studies from Tromso University, Norway, with an ethno-documentary about West Papua called Lukas' Moment.

He began his Ph.D. studies in visual anthropology at Harvard University with a grant from the Fulbright Program.

Playing Between Elephants is his first feature-length documentary and won the Human Rights Award at the 2007 Jakarta International Film Festival.