[1] Its involvement in the labor movement led to him being forced to step down from the daily newspaper Kompas in 1995.
He was born in Semarang, on 11 April 1961 as the first child of six children in the Wiharto Arismunandar family.
His father, a middle officer in the Indonesian airforce, died from a disease just ten days before Satrio graduated from UI.
He also participated in receiving new members for the Muslim Students' Association in 1981 and became a member of the ISAFIS (The Indonesian Student Association for International Studies), although in the end he decided to concentrate on journalism related activities on campus.
After working from 1986 to 1995 as a journalist, he went back to do a Master's degree in Defence Studies at the University of Indonesia, and graduated in August, 2000.