Royal Interocean Lines was a Dutch shipping company based in Hong Kong. Catalyzed by the September 30th Movement in the 1960s, a large-scale evacuation took place in Indonesia, during which many Chinese Indonesians fled to mainland China by sea. The vessels operated by Royal Interocean Lines on the route between Indonesia and Hong Kong all carried the prefix “TJI”:

• MS TJITJALENGKA
• MS TJIBADAK
• MS TJIWANGI
• MS TJILILUWAH

“TJI” is the Dutch transliteration of a Sundanese word from West Java meaning “river.”

The footage and images used in TJI are drawn from official Royal Interocean Lines publications, a Cold War–era communist spy film, and personal video archives from Hong Kong owned by Michael Rogge.

For the textual narrative, Law weaves together fragmented personal memories of diasporic individuals from Indonesia, reconstructing the sea route from the Port of Tanjung Priok in Indonesia to the Tsim Sha Tsui Railway Terminal in Hong Kong.

The video monologue is performed by Jonathan Jonathan—a naturalised Indonesian of Chinese descent who, notably, bears no Chinese surname.

Royal Interocean Lines，是一條由渣華輪船有限公司營運的海上航道。上世紀六十年代，受九三〇事件的催化，中國展開大規模的撤僑活動，大批印尼華人取水道往中國大陸。由渣華輪船有限公司營運來往印尼-香港的輪船都是以 TJI 開頭的：

• MS TJITJALENGKA（芝渣連加）
• MS TJIBADAK（芝巴達克）
• MS TJIWANGI（芝萬宜）
• MS TJILILUWAH（芝利華）

「TJI 」是西爪哇巽他語的荷蘭語譯音﹐意思為河流。

《TJI》所使用的影像與照片，取材自荷屬皇家郵船公司（Royal Interocean Lines）的官方刊物、一部冷戰時期的共產間諜電影，以及 Michael Rogge 的私人影像檔案。在文本敘事上，羅氏以集結記憶拼湊一條由印尼丹戎不碌港出發到香港尖沙咀鐵路碼頭的海上航道。錄像獨白由Jonathan Jonathan聲演。Jonathan沒有中文姓氏，是歸化印尼籍的華人後裔。

Law Yuk-mui is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator; currently lives and works between Japan and Hong Kong. Using “expanded cinema” as her artistic expression, and adopting the methodology of field study and collecting, she often intervenes the mundane space and daily life of the city and catches the physical traces of history, psychological pathways of human, the marks of time and the political power in relation to geographic space. Sound is the anchor point in Law’s creation. Her interests comprise of the political and cultural rhetoric of sound, with sound as bodily memory, and orchestrate the interplay among sound, text and visual.

Law Yuk-mui have been named to Foundwork Artist Prize 2021 short list, and received The Awards for young artist (media art category) of Hong Kong Arts development Awards and the Excellence Award (Media Art Category) of The 23rd ifva Awards in 2018.