Nice to meet you. I am victim of the chimp named Frendy Horas, who does nothing but lie and cheat. I’m from China, and I can speak Thai, English and Chinese. At the time I came to meet Frendy Horas (known in Thailand as Hopp), I had just arrived in Thailand, and I was trying…
There isn’t much to cheer about for the former customers of Global Language Centre, a language school in Jakarta which has suddenly shut its doors. An incredible 3900 students of this defunct business are now out of pocket, stunned by the news that not only has the school closed forever, but its former managers have…
One of the hallmarks of the Rumah Bahasa scandal was the issue of ”uang muka”, an Indonesian phrase which translates loosely as ”an up-front payment”. One of our main informants, a woman called Dita, has stressed that most of the victims of Frendy Horas, the owner of the now-bankrupt, language-school chain, were conned into paying…
Over the past few weeks there have been occasional news reports about a clash between Indomaret (a local chain of mini-mart) and the administration of Banyumas, a regency in Central Java. While the fate of 19 condemned Indomaret stores in Banyumas might not appear to be of great interest in and of itself, the case…
he he he..saya hampir aja…mendengar penjelasan pak kris waktu itu…saya sangat bingung dengan penjelasannya si pak kris. memang dasar penipu yaaah…ketika saya mendengar penjelasannya kok aneh yaaa..saya dikasih harga yg cukup tinggi untk belajar 1 tahun kok tiba2 si pak kris memberikan disc. yg menurut saya tidak wajar…seingat saya dari harga 25 juta saya cuma…
More bad news from Rumah Bahasa. It simply never stops. A couple of months ago two of their schools closed just weeks after they opened. Frendy Horas, the Chinese-Indonesian owner, negotiated a deal with the mall owners, closed down both schools and promised to refund all his customers. Some customers got refunds who had been…
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