Hello Moderator, I was working at the opening of Rumah Bahasa in Lotte Kelapa Gading; I was in fact their first teacher (my photo is actually on your article and I would love to see this relic gone forever), the whole thing was wrong from the start and it was Frendy’s fault. He told all…
sy juga korban dari RB cinere, saya sempat berkomunikasi melalui email yang alamat emailnya diberitahu oleh Frendy Horas. untuk kelanjutan proses Refund RB Cinere katanya. seperti berikut ini refund.rumahbahasa@gmail.com 23 April 2015 Dear : Darwin Thank you for your refund inquiry , we will process your document follow with our procedure and the counting from…
Since 2013 there have been a number of high-profile newcomers to the TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) scene in Indonesia. Many of these have attracted large bodies of students, showing that there is ever more money to be made from offering English courses to Indonesia’s young population. We will focus on four language…
In early April 2015 Rumah Bahasa Cinere Mall suddenly closed down just 2 months after opening. Between 300 and 400 students were cheated out of their course payments. Some of them lost up to $1000, scammed by Frendy Horas, Rumah Bahasa’s con-artist mastermind. This was Horas’s seventh and final school to close in Jakarta, and…
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…
The news from Rumah Bahasa and its evil con-man owner just keeps on getting worse. In fact, Frendy Horas, the 24 year old professional con-man who owns the school, has just pulled off his biggest ever hit- and-run operation. Frendy Horas’s has just closed his new school at Cinere Mall just 2 months after it…
For the past 18 months, we have been reporting intermittently about a rogue language school called Rumah Bahasa, the so-called ‘House of Languages’, which exemplifies all the sins of the Indonesian TEFL industry in one horrid package. The story began in 2013 when one whistle-blower teacher came forward and said on Dave’s ESL Cafe that…
Today we have heard from a Rumah Bahasa victim (calling herself Hollie) that the Rumah Bahasa branch at Sunter Mall has now closed. Former customers are now being directed to the Rumah Bahasa branch at TBI Kelapa Gading, often known as Rumah Bahasa Lotte Mart. This appears to be the last Rumah Bahasa standing, and…
Throughout 2014 the Rumah Bahasa story has provided an interesting counterpoint to the story of TBI. Before a brave teacher came forward and exposed the illegal shenanigans at Rumah Bahasa, this blog had focused exclusively on TBI (The British Institute), a school with its own sorry history of illegal and immoral behavior, all of it…
In 2013 we broke the story of a scandalous new school chain in Jakarta: Rumah Bahasa, The House of Language. We had received a tip off about lies and scams at Rumah Bahasa from a teacher who had gone for an interview and then an information session. He had painted a portrait of utter dysfunction:…
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