
Retno teaches Indonesian language at Columbia University as a Fulbright – Badan Bahasa Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Fellow.
She is an English lecturer at the University of Indonesia. For the last three years, she has taught English for Academic Purposes to incoming freshmen. In addition, she also has been teaching at the International Language Institution at the same university since 2012.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Al Azhar University, Jakarta, another bachelor’s degree in Communication from University of Indonesia. She earned her master’s degree in Education from Brunel University, London, United Kingdom.