 She herself was arrested, and later imprisoned in 1968 for three years, and was then deported to England on her release in 1971.Upon returning she founded Tapol to campaign for political prisoners in Indonesia, which took its name from the abbreviation of "tahanan politik", or "political prisoner" in Indonesian.The organisation expanded its activities, and was prominent in getting out information on military activity and human rights violations in East Timor, invaded and occupied by Indonesia in 1975, as well as West Papua and Aceh.