It is now almost a year since we started this blog. Over that period someone calling himself Michelle has sent over four hundred messages to this blog and most them repeat the same lies again and again. He also loves to claim that we ought to have gone whistle blower earlier, missing the crucial role…
TBI expat teachers are entitled to be paid a 13 months’ salary and they do not have to produce a priest, rabbi or imam to get it. It is your legal entitlement. Now TBI fat cats like Mariam, Reza and Luke will not be happy you are reading this, as someone has been having…
I should probably add some information regarding taxes, too, since that is a rather vital part of the hiring and working process. If you are resident in Indonesia for more than 160 days (for most nationals), or intend or are working, you must have an NPWP (tax number). Your employer normally applies for this as…
Additional information concerning contracts: In Indonesia, all contracts MUST be in Indonesian. That is not to say that they cannot contain translations to other languages, but the contract is completely worthless if it is not written in the Indonesian language. If your contract is NOT written in Bahasa Indonesia, it is toilet paper, all the…
Yesterday we received an excellent series of posts from ‘Bernard’, who is very well-informed about taxation matters in Indonesia as they pertain to expats. What Bernard has confirmed, backing up the pioneering efforts of a TBI Bekasi teacher who took TBI to Manpower, is this very important piece of information. Expat teachers are entitled to…
Another interesting issue raised by the TBI Bekasi report is the question of whether expats are entitled to claim THR. The expat teacher at Bekasi explored the issue and even went to the Department of Manpower and it appears that expats are entitled to the payment. TBI, unsurprisingly, has been avoiding its legal obligations in…
Binsar had got me a proper working visa and KITAS which is better than other TBI schools by the sounds of things. However, he insists on keeping your KITAS as he’s paranoid youmay be working elsewhere in your free time. The previous teacher, P****, complained about this and said that he wasn’t legally allowed to…
One of the interesting things for the authors of this blog is the way how witness statements from teachers within TBI Bekasi all repeat the same themes: the tightness and miserliness of Binsar, his unwillingness to honour pledges, and the complete indifference of Head Office when confronted with complaints about his sharp and dishonest practices.…
The report from the TBI Bekasi SunCity teacher has proved a wealth of useful information about Binsar Simorangkir, the current state inside TBI Bekasi and TBI’s legal obligations under various laws. It is certain to provoke a lot of debate and may even alert many teachers about extra payments they are entitled to under Indonesian…
Part 2. Contract Negotiations and Problems The salary offered was Rp9 million per month for 24 hours a week and Rp100,000 per hour for overtime. I knew this was a low salary for TBI but compared to my EF salary of Rp7 million it was an improvement. As it was my second year teaching I…
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