Mrs. Iem Brown has had many years of experience in teaching Indonesian language at the tertiary level in Australia: James Cook University; University of Queensland; Griffith University, University of Tasmania, Flinders University and The University of Adelaide. She was also an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University until July 2009. She currently lives in Bandung, Indonesia with her husband, Prof. Colin Brown.
She has translated Mohammad Hatta memoirs (1981) and in collaboration with Joan Davis, she has translated some Indonesian Poetry in A bilingual anthology of the work of 12 Indonesian poets with introduction and brief biographies, Di Serambi: On the Verandah – A Bilingual Anthology of Modern Indonesian Poetry (1995). Her other books are The Territories of Indonesia(Europa Territories of the World Series), and Contemporary Indonesian Buddhism and Monotheism.
