This really interesting article appeared in The Jakarta Globe a few days ago. It appears that in a first for Indonesia, the Supreme Court has forced big business to actually pay tax to the State. This has been creating a lot of waves in financial circles, where it has traditionally been assumed there is almost…
BUSINESS Indonesian court fines palm oil giant for tax evasion BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE POSTED ON 12/28/2012 7:59 PM | UPDATED 12/28/2012 7:59 PM No Comments 34 Share JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesia’s Supreme Court ordered a major palm oil company to pay more than $390 million to the state for tax evasion, a judge said on Friday, December…
We have had the 45th message from ‘Michelle’ this week. Poor pet is obsessed with our blog: we have been receiving upwards of a dozen abusive comments a day. In this one, she claims people must have been ‘fired or demoted’ to make way for Cam as Actel. Um….no actually. The facts of the case…
I had been warned that Nunu and Firlana were plotting to get rid of me in January 2012. The informant was my ojek driver, a short Madurese called E***. By January 2012 Nunu (Nugraha Pratama) rarely ‘hung out’ in the teacher’s room any more. He made his home downstairs with the office staff by in…
Michelle Jan 16, 12:32 am I have no interest in Luke, Mariam or anyone else at TBI for that matter. It’s years since this particular Michelle worked there. My only reason for commenting on this pathetic hate blog is to get a rise out of you – and I’ve been getting the responses I’ve been baiting…
Let it bleed.Jan 15, 5:10 am Just coz ur paranoid don’t mean nobody’s looking forward to smashing your face in with a brick smarmy motherfucker. With the true depravity and sickness we have come to associate with The British Institute’s ‘leaders’, we received this horror in our email a couple of hours back. The lunatic…
In recent days we have provided docs from multiple sources, including the franchise owners themselves, to prove that we resigned and were not fired. People like ‘Tudor’ on the Living in Indonesian Forum have called us ‘jobless idiots’ based on the Preece and France smear campaign. One of the teachers who works with Matthew France…
Lipi, a former teacher, has sworn that she quit and wasn’t fired. Cam and I have sworn that we quit in protest at the owner’s actions. The owner himself has confirmed in his email that I (Sean) was a good manager and he ‘regrets I am no longer with TBI.’ His comments, sent…
You’ve now already met the oh-so-lovely Firlana, so perhaps this post will come as less of a surprise than it might have done otherwise; or perhaps not? Read on and see… I worked at TBI KG for a very brief period of time. During this time, on top of my teaching duties, I produced 3/4…
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