One of the things that has been so eye-opening about the whole multi-language school fiasco is how little it bothers most people, least of all the Indonesian police or the Ministry of Education. There have been many thousands of people defrauded of hundreds or even thousands of dollars each, with the total losses clearly running…
Korban penipuan lembaga pendidikan bahasa asing Global Bahasa (GB), mendesak Polda Metro Jaya untuk menindaklanjuti laporan yang telah mereka buat ke Sentra Pelayanan Kepolisian (SPK). “Kami mengharapkan sikap proaktif dari kepolisian. Karena kedua owner lembaga pendidikan ini yaitu Walter Nagawijaya dan Chris Wongso sudah melarikan diri dengan membawa sejumlah uang hasil pembayaran para siswa,” ujar…
The parents of students at Global Bahasa Depok are outraged and growing restive. Having already paid for a years’ education for their children, they now find the school closed just a few months after it opened. The closure of the school happened without any notification of parents at all. Moreover, two owners of the school…
As time goes on, more information is coming to light about the links between these various new language schools that have mushroomed across Jakarta over the past 18 months, and are now spreading to Sumatra and Sulawesi. As we suspected, the similarities between these new schools are so close (especially in terms of marketing and…
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