Is there any hope of the 300 latest victims of Frendy Horas gaining any justice? Sadly, it seems unlikely. They were lied to and cheated by the ‘marketing team’ at Rumah Bahasa, who were really nothing but fraudsters conning hard-working families out of their money. In a lawful country, they could go to the police,…
For English speakers, asking simple questions in Indonesian can be more difficult than you would think. One of the problems here is the common but mistaken assumption that the Indonesian word ‘apa‘ is directly equivalent to the English ‘what’. However, if you go about translating English sentences into Indonesian by substituting ‘apa‘ for ‘what’ willy-nilly,…
The news from Rumah Bahasa and its evil con-man owner just keeps on getting worse. In fact, Frendy Horas, the 24 year old professional con-man who owns the school, has just pulled off his biggest ever hit- and-run operation. Frendy Horas’s has just closed his new school at Cinere Mall just 2 months after it…
Kami sebagian warga Cinere jg tertipu dg Rmh Bhs yg buka di Cinere Mal. Kasusnya sama persis, kami membayar utk 1th kedepan, saya bayar april14 baru mulai september14. Setelah berjalan 2bln, guru2 mengeluh tdk dibayar, setiap bulan guru keluar masuk. Sampai maret15 pihak mal mematikan lampu Rmh Bhs krn tdk membayar sewa. Pdhal murid yg…
In this week’s installment, we look at a number of words relating to being ‘economical’ or ‘parsimonious’. If you use the wrong one, you are liable to give offence, so it is important to get them sorted out. This lesson will focus on five Bahasa Indonesia words- pelit, hemat, menghemat, irit and mengirit– and give…
In a previous post I mentioned Black Swan Theory, which was introduced by Lebanese mathematician Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book, “The Black Swan.” In this post I aim to look at the extent to which the English degree requirement could be considered to be a black swan event. More specifically I want to examine…
We have now received a number of posts which have warned us that a school called Global Bahasa is behaving very similarly to the former Rumah Bahasa. There are lavish promises of teaching excellence and wonderful customer care, but then courses are endlessly delayed. The customer below registered in January but still hasn’t been notified…
Speaking in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan on Friday, Manpower Minister M. Hanif Dhakiri said he will limit the foreign workforce hoping to enter Indonesia in order to give an advantage to the domestic workforce, who already represent 99.97% of workers. It was not revealed how further reducing the mere 65,000 foreign workers in the world’s 4th most populous…
One of the unlikeliest bestsellers of 2007 was a book called The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Lebanese mathematician, Professor Naseem Taleb. In it he persuasively argues that the way we understand history and reality is completely wrong. As much as economists and pundits try to predict the future, what really…
In the past year or so, TBI has finally become a registered company, PT. Titian Buana Ilmu. What did you make of this development? They had been talking about registering as a company for a long time, but like most of their plans, it took much longer to happen than they planned. Many years longer.…
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