In April 2012 I received emails from two former TBI Bekasi teachers. They both made very similar allegations against Binsar Simorangkir, the school manager. Binsar didn’t pay promised wages, personal property was stolen from teachers time and again, female staff reported being sexually harassed and there were threats of violence and arrest if the teacher…
The reason that TBI has recently tried to force confidentiality agreements on innocent teachers is surely because they have so many skeletons in the closet. It is amazing to think that what we, at this blog, know is probably only a small fraction of the true extent of improper conduct at TBI. Until we started…
Even in a language school known for its atrocious management, the story of TBI Semarang is well below average. And, as always, the usual suspects are involved. We used to think they were incompetent; now we know that they simply have no standards or integrity in business. When TBI Semarang opened the TBI Franchise Manager,…
TBI Semarang went bankrupt in 2012, going out of business after 5 lackluster years. During that time it had been the victim of visa scams, 6 different claims of sexual harassment by female employees against Helmy, the former manager, who also embezzled around $8000 from the budget. Typically, he was recommended by a former manager who…
In this photo we see the Javanese dancing girls which were procured for the TBI Semarang Grand Opening. Clearly there were great hopes held for TBI Semarang once. Retty- Luke Preece’s predecessor as the Head of Franchise- had sold yet another franchise and things were looking up for TBI. It now had a presence in…
This photo comes from the opening of TBI Semarang in 2008. It comes from the TBI Semarang Facebook, which hasn’t been updated in several years! We have some big news to bring readers on TBI Semarang on Monday. We will send a free Tibby doll to the first three readers who write in to us…
A month after we first broke the news that TBI Malang’s joint-venture partners had thrown out Luke and Mariam due to their corruption and lack of professionalism, terminating the entire contractual arrangement, TBI have finally removed the school from their webpage. If you go to LOCATIONS on the TBI webpage, you will still see TBI…
In this part of our ongoing interview series with TBI Mafia Victims, we interview a former school manager of Kuningan and Sudirman about the ongoing culture of sleaze and corruption which has been exposed within TBI Kuningan and beyond. Last month we found an online discussion in the ‘Living in Indonesia’ forum, which discussed the…
In recent days we have shown the emails which proved that the owner said he regretted I had left Kelapa Gading and the casual teachers saying they were shocked we had left, all from just a day or two after the event. We have shown Lipi’s testimonial which confirms independently that we resigned. I have…
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