When we interviewed former teacher ‘LiPi’ for this blog several months ago she reported that Matthew France had asked her not to do overtime. What do you make of this fact? Clearly, he was trying to disrupt school operations. He knew that it was hard to staff the school on Saturdays due to the DIKNAS…
How did Matthew France come to work at Menara Kuningan? I was told that he wanted to transfer to Jakarta from Bandung by Chris Needham, who said he was passing on the information from Luke Preece. Do you remember when this happened? I estimate it was in the last quarter of 2009. Did Luke organize…
In the current (seventh) season of the American TV show ‘Dexter’, about a vigilante serial killer, there was an interesting scene which reminds us of Mariam Kartikatresni’s recent conduct at TBI Malang. In the scene a Russian Mafia boss places a gun in the hand of a man he wants dead and tells him to…
Christmas is fast approaching. We intended to be taking a long break for 2 weeks but then Luke Preece and Mariam Kartikatresni wandered off to Malang, knife in hand, for a pre-Christmas coup…..which went horribly wrong. Tomorrow we bring you more details how how Luke and Mariam, working as a team, tried to take over…
In this interview we discuss Luke Preece’s email from January 2011 in which he describes Mariam’s actions as ‘pretty dumb’ and criticizes her work ethic. This email dates from January 2011. What can you tell us about your relationship with Luke Preece at this point? Luke was always telling me he was my friend and…
Last night I interviewed a highly-placed source at MCE, the joint venture which was the dominant partner of the TBI Malang-MCE pairing. In the coming days we will offer fresh insights and information into why TBI has been kicked off the premises at their own school, TBI Malang. We will also offer insights into how…
With the closing of TBI Malang, Luke Preece has brought TBI into unprecedented disgrace. The JV partner had invested hundreds of millions of rupiah in the project and the decision to break their venture with TBI cannot have been taken lightly. It is a sign of how utterly Preece has dragged the TBI name through…
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