Yesterday we received an excellent series of posts from ‘Bernard’, who is very well-informed about taxation matters in Indonesia as they pertain to expats. What Bernard has confirmed, backing up the pioneering efforts of a TBI Bekasi teacher who took TBI to Manpower, is this very important piece of information. Expat teachers are entitled to…
Another interesting issue raised by the TBI Bekasi report is the question of whether expats are entitled to claim THR. The expat teacher at Bekasi explored the issue and even went to the Department of Manpower and it appears that expats are entitled to the payment. TBI, unsurprisingly, has been avoiding its legal obligations in…
Binsar had got me a proper working visa and KITAS which is better than other TBI schools by the sounds of things. However, he insists on keeping your KITAS as he’s paranoid youmay be working elsewhere in your free time. The previous teacher, P****, complained about this and said that he wasn’t legally allowed to…
One of the interesting things for the authors of this blog is the way how witness statements from teachers within TBI Bekasi all repeat the same themes: the tightness and miserliness of Binsar, his unwillingness to honour pledges, and the complete indifference of Head Office when confronted with complaints about his sharp and dishonest practices.…
The report from the TBI Bekasi SunCity teacher has proved a wealth of useful information about Binsar Simorangkir, the current state inside TBI Bekasi and TBI’s legal obligations under various laws. It is certain to provoke a lot of debate and may even alert many teachers about extra payments they are entitled to under Indonesian…
Part 2. Contract Negotiations and Problems The salary offered was Rp9 million per month for 24 hours a week and Rp100,000 per hour for overtime. I knew this was a low salary for TBI but compared to my EF salary of Rp7 million it was an improvement. As it was my second year teaching I…
Look at Screen Dumps #19 and #20 and you will find one section which says ‘management services’. It looks quite innocent and innocuous but it it may be the single biggest smoking gun of dodgy accounting practices on the whole tax-evading scam of an income statement. You see the deduction made for these management services…
Today we start a new series of reports from a TBI teacher. Over the next month we will be featuring two or three posts a week from this TBI Bekasi expat teacher, who has just resigned. In his well-written, lucid and perceptive report, he offers a stark portrait of a failing school and the man…
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…
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