The leaks from TBI Jakarta continue to be almost unbelievably negative. The school closures, staff layoffs and pay cuts have taken their toll on morale. Even people who used to be tight-lipped and careful are now heard complaining openly about how badly managed and unjust TBI is. Indonesia is a hierarchical society. People are often…
Over the past few months, we have argued that with the ousting of TBI’s wretched old Director, the hapless and useless Ibu Mariam Kartikatrensi, the victory of her main rival, Ibu Nng Anhar, was complete. For many years, the shady yayasan (charity) USG had been the domain of Ibu Ning, while Mariam had thrown her…
This blog has always been based on a simple proposition: TBI (The British Institute) is a fraudulent, delusional and rapidly declining company which is the sick man of the Indonesian TEFL industry. Over the past several years we have attempted to document in its decline by compiling and cross-checking all the information we have accrued…
In this final part of this four part series of posts on TBI’s organizational structure- one which we have shown has been plagued by rent-seeking practices which have sapped the energy and competitiveness of the company from the start- we look at the real reasons for Mariam’s ouster in late 2015. Why was the TBI…
We have often been informed that the “Indonesianization of management” policy which was pursued by TBI with cut-throat abandon in 2010 and 2011 has not been the glowing success that Ashley, Mariam and Luke envisaged. In fact, in the last 3 and a half years, TBI has seen 2 schools close permanently- TBI Semarang and…
TBI Malang was established in 2002 and has an established history of providing first class English Language training to the people of Malang. TBI’s students range from very young children right through to corporate professionals and we pride ourselves on ensuring quality instruction in all of our programmes. From August 2013 TBI Malang will be…
M Before we ran the story of the school closures at Semarang and Malang we asked people inside TBI whether they had heard of it, including both teachers and students. No one knew it had happened; not one word of explanation had been given. Why are TBI so totally secretive with their own staff? I…
There have been a lot of bad and inaccurate ideas thrown about in the attempt to discredit this blog. There have been the vile homophobic taunts, as if exposing corruption had anything to do with sexual preference; there have been the lies spread by Luke Preece that we were fired, since proven wrong by emails…
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…
A few weeks ago I watched the highly acclaimed Australian movie, ‘Snowtown’, about Australia’s worst serial killer, John Bunting, who led a degenerate gang of killers who murdered gays, pedophiles, obese people, drug users and anyone else Bunting deemed to be social parasites who needed to be ‘taken out’. While I am not suggesting that…
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