Berton Turnip

I was born in Aek Nabara, a small village in North Sumatera, Indonesia, on the 10th of September 1964. After finishing primary and secondary education in North Sumatera, I attended college at Institut Pertanian Bogor (Bogor Agriculture University) in West Java, and graduated as Sarjana Pertanian (equivalent to Bachelor of Science in Agriculture) in 1989. I continued my education by attending magister program at University of Indonesia, majoring in educational psychology, which I finished in 2005. Beside my formal education, I have also taken some courses, among others: Cross Culture Course at Cross Culture Training (CCT), in Bandung; (2) Translation Course and Semantics Course at Asia SIL School, in Darwin, Australia; (3) Learning that LASTS Workshop at SIL, Bandung; and 4) Advanced Learning that LASTS Workshop at SIL, Bandung. Since 1990, I had worked in some different schools, companies, and organizations as a lecturer/teacher, consultant on environmental impact assesment, community development practitioner, and translator, before finally joined SIL International as a training specialist in 2000. And have focused on training others since then.