One of the more bizarre recent tweets from TBI Kelapa Gading was one in which they proudly displayed their classroom facilities with the following quote: Hi TBuddies! Ini lho suasana kelas dan pembelajaran di TBI Kelapa Gading, khususnya program Children. This translates loosely as, “Hi TBuddies! This is the classroom environment at the TBI Kelapa…
We recently made the mistake of looking at the TBI Kelapa Gading twitter account. Oh boy, there are so many grammar and spelling mistakes on that thing. They truly are an embarrassment to the name of English language education. They don’t know the difference between “quiet” and “quite”, for example. These people have such low-quality…
TBI is a stagnant company everywhere, but its woes are clearly at their most severe in Jakarta. Unable to compete in the cut-throat, Jakarta market, TBI has gone from loss to loss in the capital. At the end of 2016, its most prestigious former property TBI Sudirman closed: sadly, TBI could no longer afford the…
This blog has always been based on a simple proposition: TBI (The British Institute) is a fraudulent, delusional and rapidly declining company which is the sick man of the Indonesian TEFL industry. Over the past several years we have attempted to document in its decline by compiling and cross-checking all the information we have accrued…
At this blog, we have always tried to moderate and conservative in our claims. We have never stated that TBI will go bust on such and such a date; we do not want to indulge in speculation, and there’s no way that anyone outside Head Office can know exactly how bad the finances are. However,…
TBI (The British Insitute), an ailing language chain in Indonesia, has been reeling from the news that its former Head Office at TBI Sudirman (The Sequis Centre) has been closed due to “cash flow” problems. While they will publicly deny they are have serious financial difficulties, no intelligent person will doubt that a company which…
During my final year working for TBI Kelapa Gading, I became aware that the main franchisee/owner, a man by the name of Djalaludin Djaprie (or sometimes Jaladin Japri), was a major player in the palm-oil plantation business, which has had such a devestating impact on the ecology of Indonesia. In light of the massive forest…
Sebagai salah satu bentuk upaya terhadap konservasi orangutan, Perusahaan bekerjasama dengan Ecositrop, Universitas Mulawarman (UNMUL) dan Balai Konservasi Sumberdaya Alam (BKSDA) membentuk tim Satgas Penyelamatan (Rescue) Orangutan dan melakukan pelatihan terhadap tim Satgas di MAE dan LYE untuk menangani orangutan yang ada di areal perkebunan. Pelatihan dilakukan pada tanggal 11-14 April 2012 dan dibuka oleh…
In recent days we have reported that Anita Pasaribu has been replaced as SM of TBI Kelapa Gading after less than a year. She followed work-shy hypochondriac Nugraha (Nunu) who casually admitted to the whole staff that he didn’t like being school manager because it was a lot of work and he was “basically a…
1. TBI Kelapa Gading is onto its 4th school manager since 2012. This is a shambolic situation which points to utter chaos and dysfunction within this school. Well-managed, successful schools simply don’t feel the need to change managers every 6 months or so. This fits the pattern of dysfunction and incompetence we have presented all…
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