[1] She has studied at the Arts Institute in Yogyakarta in Java and thanks to a scholarship from the Australia Embassy, at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
[3] She is married to a Dutchman named Rene van Helsdingen and they lived and worked together in the Netherlands.
The trio that she played with was called the Helsdingen Trio[1] In 1985 she appeared at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague in 1985 as a member of the Indonesian band Bhaskara.
[2] Luluk and Bhaskara are credited for composing the iconic theme tune for RCTI's flagship newscast, Seputar Indonesia in 1989, which is Indonesia's first newscast ever carried by a commercial television station.
The track, which is titled "Betawi" or "Jakarta", became Seputar Indonesia's opening and closing theme for fourteen years (1989–2003).