Meet the New TBI Director: Windiaprana Ramelan

Over the past few months, we have argued that with the ousting of TBI’s wretched old Director, the hapless and useless Ibu Mariam Kartikatrensi, the victory of her main rival, Ibu Nng Anhar, was complete. For many years, the shady yayasan (charity) USG had been the domain of Ibu Ning, while Mariam had thrown her…

Socioeconomic Issues in Kelapa Gading

One of the very difficult things about Kelapa Gading was the fact that I had to work very hard to get the owners to accept Indonesian teachers. Kelapa Gading is a high-income part of the city and about 75% of our students were Chinese Indonesian. Many of the Chinese-Indonesians would come in and say outrageous…