Part 4. Where Did All the Children Go, Nunu? We have been slowly exploring how Nunu Pratama could have lost 35% of classes within three months between March and May 2012. So far we have touched on a few reasons for this dismal performance: Nunu lied to the teachers he had a CELTA and…
I just read Sean’s interview with the TBI Bekasi teacher. I wanted to add a few thoughts about the teacher’s comments. 1) TBI franchise schools are not supposed to do price increases in September, so the teacher is absolutely right to wonder whether Binsar has done this with official approval. Price increases are only supposed…
In this interview we touch base with one of the TBI Bekasi victims. We ask our informant what he makes of the latest massive fee increases at TBI Bekasi Sun City and much else besides. A student from TBI Bekasi SunCity informed us that there had been a sudden increase of around 33% in tuition…
We can now confirm that TBI Semarang has shut its doors and gone bankrupt. This is the second TBI school which has closed down within the last two months, exposing the current management mafia as inept, clueless and directionless. It is a particular slap in the face for Luke Preece, who campaigned ruthlessly in 2010…
The reason that TBI has recently tried to force confidentiality agreements on innocent teachers is surely because they have so many skeletons in the closet. It is amazing to think that what we, at this blog, know is probably only a small fraction of the true extent of improper conduct at TBI. Until we started…
Even in a language school known for its atrocious management, the story of TBI Semarang is well below average. And, as always, the usual suspects are involved. We used to think they were incompetent; now we know that they simply have no standards or integrity in business. When TBI Semarang opened the TBI Franchise Manager,…
TBI Semarang went bankrupt in 2012, going out of business after 5 lackluster years. During that time it had been the victim of visa scams, 6 different claims of sexual harassment by female employees against Helmy, the former manager, who also embezzled around $8000 from the budget. Typically, he was recommended by a former manager who…
In this photo we see the Javanese dancing girls which were procured for the TBI Semarang Grand Opening. Clearly there were great hopes held for TBI Semarang once. Retty- Luke Preece’s predecessor as the Head of Franchise- had sold yet another franchise and things were looking up for TBI. It now had a presence in…
This afternoon we continue our investigation to one of TBI’s dirtiest little secrets: tax evasion on a massive scale. In the first two parts of this investigation, we looked how TBI had ripped off the Indonesian government and people by paying only $40 tax on $69,700 revenue at Menara Kuningan in October 2011. Its income…
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