This will be a very brief post based on a discussion I had this evening. I was told that not only have all 3 TBI Surabaya schools closed in recent months, but another victim is on the way. TBI was doing badly before the Covid pandemic and it is now truly the sick man of…
In recent months, all three TBI schools in Surabaya have closed. Apparently TBI is now such a toxic brand that it can’t even stay in business in Indonesia’s second biggest city. However, this has been coming for a long time. Our informant has told us that the former owners of TBI Darmokali were in open…
“Within a year, it went bankrupt and it has ruined the lives of the owner and his family members. The school has closed and more will follow (see next update).” That sentence was featured in our most recent article about TBI from a few weeks back. So why did we report that ‘the school has…
Over the next few weeks we will be updating you about the latest events from TBI, focusing on the collapse of this language chain in Indonesia’s second biggest city, Surabaya. In this post we want to start with TBI West Surabaya, a disastrous TBI franchise school which has gone bankrupt in recent weeks. We have…
At this blog we have warned people for years that TBI was a corrupt, cronyistic and nepotistic business which was riddled with problems. At first our whistleblowing was met with howls of outrage and denial from the corrupt vested interests which run the school. However, the more people we talked to, the more skeletons we…
Dear Pak Windi, I am writing on behalf of all employees at the three TBI Bandung branches, to inform you that all TBI Bandung staff will be on strike on Friday and Saturday, 23rd and 24th of August 2019. We regretfully have to do this, as the situation concerning our salary has not improved significantly…
More TBI schools have bitten the dust. After the defection of TBI Medan, other TBI franchise schools have closed their doors. After 13 dreadful years of graft and crime-ridden business, the scandalously bad TBI Bekasi has now gone out of business. It joins the long list of closed TBI schools which includes TBI Semarang, TBI…
Recently I went online to check the TBI website and found that one of their schools had closed down. It is hardly the first time this happened. The last TBI school to go belly-up was TBI Sudirman. TBI Cengkareng folded a few years before. Likewise, TBI Semarang went bankrupt in 2012. Furthermore, TBI Malang closed…
In our most recent post on this blog, we revealed how far TBI has now fallen in the eyes of its employees. These unfortunates have been forced into accepting salary by installment lately, because this low-class language school has hit such financial woes that they are now paying salaries two or even three times a…
It has been a few months since I last updated this blog. Mostly I feel content these days to leave the so-called ‘British Institute’ to its slow, agonizing demise. Its glory days now a decade behind it, it is the home of constant promos and discounts in which they try and win back lost love…
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