A few months ago we were contacted at this blog by the ‘new’ owners of TBI Bekasi (Ruko Sun City) who asked us to contact them about our allegations of fraud, corruption and teacher abuse. They provided us with an email account. We tried to contact them but the email address was no longer in…
Nowadays, there can’t be many people in the Jakarta TEFL industry who haven’t heard the whispers about TBI Bekasi, the school which has earned itself the dubious honor of being TBI’s most disreputable franchise school. During 2012 and 2013 we spoke with no less than 5 previous expat teachers who had worked for Binsar, the…
I was teaching Business English the other day to a Pre-Intermediate class and I came across a reading passage on ‘The Quality Circle’. This is a common term which is thrown around in business books these days and no doubt it is already last decade’s news on the corporate training circuit. But like most of…
Today we were alerted to the, ahem, TBI Suncity Bekasi Facebook page. Now you wouldn’t exactly expect it to world-class, would you? But what we saw was shockingly bad: a reminder that no matter how low you rate them, they are actually somewhat worse than what you think. I mean, honestly, they shouldn’t by running a nasi goreng stand let…
TBI’s pathetic decline towards irrelevance grows more pronounced by the minute. Better and more professional competitors are crowding them out of the market, revealing them for the unprofessional, out-of-date and inept company that they really are. More on their continued descent soon, but in the meantime, we offer you the truly contemptible: Binsar Simorangkir, having…
Having spoken to a number of Indonesian managers who fell victim to Luke Preece, I have learnt that he manufactures crises in the schools managed by his rivals as a way to try and force them out. Did you experience this in your time with the company? The first time I saw it was against…
Beberapa guru yang pernah bekerja di TBI Bekasi menyatakan bahwa manajer TBI yang bernama Binsar Simorangir adalah seorang penjahat kelamin dan pecandu porno. Hal tersebut diketahui oleh seorang guru yang berasal dari Amerika . Guru tersebut pernah memakai komputer Binsar dan telah mem buka url-nya. Ternyata di komputer Binsar penuh dengan situs porno seperti “porno anak abg” dan “cewek SMA yang nakal” serta lainnya. Yang tak beradab Binsar sering menonton porno di dalam sekolah.…
Some people reading this might be wondering: who in their right mind would send their children to TBI Sun City when there are plenty of other courses nearby? At first the answer might not be that obvious since as another TBI Bekasi victim stated Binsar spends no money on advertising. This is true, and he…
As the weeks rolled on by, Binsar began to have a change of attitude towards myself. First of all he asked me one day if he could hold on to my KITAS. I asked him why and he said that he needed to hold onto my original KITAS since it was company policy. I kept…
Today we re-run the longest teacher report from TBI Bekasi, sent by a teacher who finished there in early 2013. It has become a bit lost beneath the large number of subsequent posts, so we have decided to feature it again. It is very long (over 5000 words), so we have decided to run it…
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