Well, this isn’t the first time we have been here, is it? Stories that Mariam Kartikatresni had resigned / been fired from TBI have been a dime a dozen. Regular readers of this blog will recall that Mariam was deposed as TBI Director in June 2011 and replaced by Pak Toni, the former head of…
We have decided to start focusing on Mariam Kartikatresni again. The legendary narcissist and dragon lady terrorized TBI for years, causing dozens upon dozens of subordinates to quit TBI over the years. This was a woman who would forget to give people targets or guidelines and then fly into a narcissistic rage when things didn’t…
Saya dapat memberitahukan bahwa Marcel Staal dan Jenty Lim sudah tiba di Belanda. Ada seseorang di Belanda yang buka situs ini 10 sampai 20 kali dalam sehari. Sebenarnya korban Dunia Bahasa telah menghubungi polisi Belanda dan melaporkan Marcel Staal. Polisi Belanda juga bisa menyelidiki Jenty Lim yang bukan warga Belanda. Marcel Staal dituntut karena telah …
Marcel Staal and his partner Jenty Lim, an Indonesian businesswoman, have fled justice in Indonesia. The subject of multiple newspaper reports in the Indonesia media, including the major national newspaper Kompas, Staal is now wanted for questioning about a series of fraudulent language schools which he and suddenly closed in August 2015 in Indonesia. Below…
Sejumlah staf dan pengguna jasa tempat les Dunia Bahasa melaporkan pemilik tempat les tersebut ke Mapolsektro Kelapa Dua. Pemilik tempat kursus tersebut diketahui bernama Jenty Lim. Diberitakan sebelumnya oleh Warta Kota, 465 siswa sebuah tempat les bahasa bernama Dunia Bahasa di Ruko Boulevard Gading Serpong, Kelapa Dua, Kabupaten Tangerang melapor ke polisi. Mereka melapor terkait adanya dugaan…
One of the things that has been so eye-opening about the whole multi-language school fiasco is how little it bothers most people, least of all the Indonesian police or the Ministry of Education. There have been many thousands of people defrauded of hundreds or even thousands of dollars each, with the total losses clearly running…
From time to time we have received complaints from people who allege that this blog is making the Indonesian TEFL industry look bad, especially PT. Titian Buana Ilmu (TBI). It is alleged that the recruitment woes of PT. Titian Buana Ilmu are down to the nasty things we say about Ibu Mariam’s scandal and gaffe-prone…
Lembaga bahasa bernama Dunia Bahasa di Ruko Boulevard Gading Serpong, Tangerang, belum memiliki izin operasi tempat kursus. Pihak Dunia Bahasa hanya mengurus perizinan sampai di tingkat kelurahan untuk surat keterangan domisili usaha (SKDU), belum sampai pada tahap izin operasi di tingkat kecamatan. “Izin operasi itu harusnya diurus di tingkat kecamatan, kan ada seksi-seksinya. (Pengurusan) memang…
Jujur saya menyesal sekali bisa ambil les di tempat yang tidak berkualitas seperti ILC. Sekali lagi saya katakan, saya teramat menyesal. Ada banyak keluhan yang ingin saya utarakan di sini: Mengaku jam fleksibel, ternyata banyak kelas yang kosong bahkan sejak saya mendaftar bersama teman-teman sekelas. Khususnya resepsionis wanita yang suka mengganggu teman-teman saya dan mengajak…
Since the first half of 2015, the multi-language school chains have been falling down in quick succession. The latest chain to suddenly go out of business (on August 1st, it appears), was Dunia Bahasa. Dunia Bahasa first appeared little over a year ago, and before its sudden ‘bankruptcy’ it had 6 branches. These ranged from…
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