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…
Since P****** the other teacher left I have primarily been teaching all the classes myself. TBIBekasi typically sells it’s courses as 50:50 native:local teachers. Ok initially after P***** left itcould be justified that he had classes at 50:50 as he wasn’t expecting P******* to leave.However, for new courses throughout the rest of the year he…
The posts from the first ever expat teacher to complete his contract at TBI Bekasi have generated a large amount of views. The TBI Mafia have long claimed that no one is interested in this blog, but it had around 6,000 views in the first six weeks of 2013. Is 1000 views a week (around…
Dear Luke, Mariam, Reza, Ashley, Hery etc. I have been playing a role in this blog since the start because I feel I was treated horribly during my employment in your company. I’m part of the reason your Jenga tower of corruption and abuse is falling down. I didn’t do this out of…
The recent report from the first ever expat teacher to complete a contract at TBI Bekasi has attracted a great deal of interest and debate, as has the revelation that TBI has been pocketing its own teachers’ THR in a scam which must have netted someone tens of thousands of dollars in recent years. We…
Binsar has tried to recruit several teachers. Four teachers have come to TBI Bekasi to give teaching demonstrations. I know that 3 of them didn’t have any teaching experience nor degree qualifications, as again Binsar discussed these recruitments with me. I asked Binsar during these discussions would he be happy having these teachers teach IELTS…
It is now almost a year since we started this blog. Over that period someone calling himself Michelle has sent over four hundred messages to this blog and most them repeat the same lies again and again. He also loves to claim that we ought to have gone whistle blower earlier, missing the crucial role…
TBI expat teachers are entitled to be paid a 13 months’ salary and they do not have to produce a priest, rabbi or imam to get it. It is your legal entitlement. Now TBI fat cats like Mariam, Reza and Luke will not be happy you are reading this, as someone has been having…
I should probably add some information regarding taxes, too, since that is a rather vital part of the hiring and working process. If you are resident in Indonesia for more than 160 days (for most nationals), or intend or are working, you must have an NPWP (tax number). Your employer normally applies for this as…
Additional information concerning contracts: In Indonesia, all contracts MUST be in Indonesian. That is not to say that they cannot contain translations to other languages, but the contract is completely worthless if it is not written in the Indonesian language. If your contract is NOT written in Bahasa Indonesia, it is toilet paper, all the…
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