You can plan anything, but the Almighty may be already writing: It will be different
Rony Marton in his name Jaroni Surjomartono was born on 5 December 1943 in the city of Kudus on Java Island in today´s Indonesia. He spent his childhood in the Java city of Solo. As a little boy, he experienced the Indonesian War of Independence. After passing his Secondary school-leaving exam, he started to study at a university in Yogyakarta, Java; however, he was not satisfied there. He decided to apply for a scholarship to study abroad. Japan was his original target; however, the scholarship Japanese programme had been exhausted so he used the offer to study in Czechoslovakia. He arrived in Prague in September 1963 and enrolled in the Prague University of Economics and Business. During his studies, there was a purge in Indonesia. Indonesian government asked citizens studying abroad to sign a consent form to what was happening in their homeland, which Rony Marton refused, given the brutal nature of the purge. Consequently, his citizenship was basically removed from him. Given the situation in Indonesia, he stayed in Czechoslovakia. He married here and was involved in music. At first, he played in student clubs but in 1970, he started a professional career. He finished it at the end of the 1970s. Then he worked as an economist in the corporate sector. He did not visit Indonesia until the 1990s. Rony Marton lived in Prague in 2022.