Kovach expressed surprise at the incident.
"If you had to pick out one type of person, you'd never think Andreas," he said. "We feel pretty confident that this was an isolated incident."
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Kovach said the couple, married for five years, was going to undergo marriage counseling.
Harsono, a freelance journalist from Jakarta, Indonesia, said he had no excuse for his actions.
"It's wrong to beat your wife. It never should have happened," he said. "There's nothing that justifies what I did."
He said the couple will try to move into a Cambridge apartment after they leave their Dunster House residence.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is bringing criminal charges against Harsono and a pre-trial hearing is set for Feb. 1.
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