As we have long been forecasting, International Language Center has now collapsed totally. Its last few branches have all closed; there are now no more ILC branches in existence. The last one to close its doors was ILC Ciputra. As so often before, hundreds and hundreds of victims have been cheated out millions and millions…
In our last post about Preece, TBI’s bogan Machiavelli, we showed a photo of him handing out certificates at TBI Bali. Let’s use that as the starting point for the second part of this update. Specifically, let’s start with this question: How did we know that he was now at TBI Bali in the first…
“More on Luke Preece please. It’s very interesting. I knew him when he was making lunches for TBI Dago. What’s he up to now?” This request found its way into our inbox a few days ago, and we haven’t had the chance to respond to it until now. After all, we thought we had tirelessly…
Email saya agreeya.pakpahan@gmail.com, rekan saya juga sedang ada masalah dengan ILC, lebih baik kita gabung tempuh jalur hukum saja Bapak/Ibu, supaya tidak ada korban lebih lanjut, saya tunggu email bapak/Ibu.
Hi Admin…Sekedar Update saja, saat ini TBI semakin kesulitan keuangan, semua dihemat, tunjangan – tunjangan dihapus, karyawan kontrak pun tidak ada kenaikan gaji. Saat ini keuangan TBI dikelola oleh orang yang tidak paham sama sekali mengenai Akunting maupun Finance yaitu si TM yang dulunya boneka Mariam. Bisa dibayangkan betapa semakin amburadulnya TBI saat ini. Semua…
In a recent article, the Australian sociologist Salvatore Babones made the following observation: “Many developing countries have chosen economic stagnation rather than erode the spending power of their wealthiest citizens.” This struck me as a particularly interesting observation, because it confirms the suspicion I have held for some time now about the economic policies being…
“Belajar bahasa bisa sangat menyenangkan asal kita memiliki pengajar, tempat dan lingkungan yang mengasyikkan. Salah satu tempat belajar bahasa yang seru adalah ILC.” Bo’ong deh! Translated into English, the misleading sentence above reads: “Studying languages can be fun so long as we have a teacher and environment which is exciting. One such language school is…
I start the emerging markets blog post feature with a prediction: The mainstream media would spend 2016 obsessing over every brain-fart of Donald Trump while ignoring the fact that 29 different countries were caught up in a commodities crash. That prediction (perhaps a very easy one to make) has come true in spades. Nonetheless, the…
For almost three years now we have been reporting on a disturbing phenomenon that has been sweeping Jakarta: the world of the so-called ‘polyglot’ or ‘multi-bahasa/language’ schools. Since 2012 at least, these schools have been attracting students (or more to the point, victims) with the promise that they can study at Rumah Bahasa, Global Language…
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