The news from Rumah Bahasa and its evil con-man owner just keeps on getting worse. In fact, Frendy Horas, the 24 year old professional con-man who owns the school, has just pulled off his biggest ever hit- and-run operation. Frendy Horas’s has just closed his new school at Cinere Mall just 2 months after it…
Kami sebagian warga Cinere jg tertipu dg Rmh Bhs yg buka di Cinere Mal. Kasusnya sama persis, kami membayar utk 1th kedepan, saya bayar april14 baru mulai september14. Setelah berjalan 2bln, guru2 mengeluh tdk dibayar, setiap bulan guru keluar masuk. Sampai maret15 pihak mal mematikan lampu Rmh Bhs krn tdk membayar sewa. Pdhal murid yg…
In this week’s installment, we look at a number of words relating to being ‘economical’ or ‘parsimonious’. If you use the wrong one, you are liable to give offence, so it is important to get them sorted out. This lesson will focus on five Bahasa Indonesia words- pelit, hemat, menghemat, irit and mengirit– and give…
In a previous post I mentioned Black Swan Theory, which was introduced by Lebanese mathematician Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book, “The Black Swan.” In this post I aim to look at the extent to which the English degree requirement could be considered to be a black swan event. More specifically I want to examine…
We have now received a number of posts which have warned us that a school called Global Bahasa is behaving very similarly to the former Rumah Bahasa. There are lavish promises of teaching excellence and wonderful customer care, but then courses are endlessly delayed. The customer below registered in January but still hasn’t been notified…
Speaking in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan on Friday, Manpower Minister M. Hanif Dhakiri said he will limit the foreign workforce hoping to enter Indonesia in order to give an advantage to the domestic workforce, who already represent 99.97% of workers. It was not revealed how further reducing the mere 65,000 foreign workers in the world’s 4th most populous…
One of the unlikeliest bestsellers of 2007 was a book called The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Lebanese mathematician, Professor Naseem Taleb. In it he persuasively argues that the way we understand history and reality is completely wrong. As much as economists and pundits try to predict the future, what really…
In the past year or so, TBI has finally become a registered company, PT. Titian Buana Ilmu. What did you make of this development? They had been talking about registering as a company for a long time, but like most of their plans, it took much longer to happen than they planned. Many years longer.…
Sedang vs. Lagi One of the most useful, but also most confusing, words in the Indonesian language is lagi. This is largely because it has multiple meanings and uses, some of which are extremely common in colloquial Indonesian but rarely covered in formal ”learn Indonesian books”. This post aims to clear up the difference between…
During the time I lived in Indonesia, it traded in a band of between 8,500 and 10,000 rupiah, hovering around the 9,000 rupiah mark for much of the time. It was broadly stable during these years from 2005 to 2012, meaning that your Indonesian salary held its value reasonably well. The main threat was inflation,…
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