She is a painter having recent exhibitions in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur,[1] Malaysia.
In the early 1960s, Marina joined her parents and brothers to live in Los Angeles and Leiden, Netherlands, where her father, Dr. Sumarsono Sastrowardoyo, studied urology for six years, including a stint at University of California, Los Angeles.
After returning home to Indonesia, in 1976 she participated in a Miss Teen pageant organized by Gadis magazine and won the first prize.
Her paternal grandfather, Sutejo Sastrowardoyo, traced the family's ancestry back 18 generations to 15th century Java.
Ms. Sastrowardoyo is fluent in Dutch and English, as well her native Javanese and Indonesian.