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…
It is interesting to see that even Bloomberg News has gotten into the act of criticizing the regulators of the Indonesian TEFL industry. A syndicated article about the sheer madness of the DIKNAS regulations has now made it from New York all the way to Bangkok and Jakarta. However, the key points will not be…
Throughout 2014 the Rumah Bahasa story has provided an interesting counterpoint to the story of TBI. Before a brave teacher came forward and exposed the illegal shenanigans at Rumah Bahasa, this blog had focused exclusively on TBI (The British Institute), a school with its own sorry history of illegal and immoral behavior, all of it…
A rule change in the way international schools in Indonesia operate has generated confusion and frustration among education stakeholders, who say it is characteristic of the government’s lack of a global vision for the country’s education system. Under the Education Ministry regulation issued in May this year, and taking effect as of last Monday, Indonesian-owned…
The fact has been little commented on in the local media, but the Jokowi administration has just divided the old DIKNAS department in two. In place of the old DIKNAS (Education Department), there are now two new entities. The first is Dikti, which is about higher education; its full title is Direktorat Pendidikan Tinggi (Directorate…
Rent-seeking is one of the more interesting economic concepts to have emerged from the academic literature since the 1960s, but it is still a rather neglected concept in the mainstream media. Perhaps this is because the term can be rather confusing at first glance; it has nothing to do with renting or rentals in the…
The email below shows Luke Preece managing recruitment, especially with regards to illegal foreign labor. There are two especially interesting parts. In one he recommends hiring a teacher DIKNAS has explicitly rejected, showing that he is intent of defrauding the government in someone else’s country. This is an open admission of breaking Indonesian law. And…
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