How would you describe Helmy V’s relationships with the teachers? I’d say it was disastrously bad. He was so bad that closure of the school was a possibility in 2009. Can you give us an example of his handiwork? There was one female teacher from Kuningan who was working on a casual basis. Cam had…
In this interview we examine the allgeations of sexual impropriety which were made against Helmy V- the former school manager of TBI Semarang and TBI Kelapa Gading. What can you tell us about Helmy V’s sexual misconduct in TBI Semarang? According to our source, Helmy had been accused of sexually harassing every single female staff…
In this part of the interview we start to investigate the damage which TBI nepotism did to TBI Kelapa Gading in 2009. How many school managers did TBI Kelapa Gading have in 2009? It had three. We have learned that TBI Serpong has had 4 school managers since 2009 and so has TBI Kelapa Gading.…
Before returning to the lax supervision and tax-shy business dealings of Dr. Pauwsan Sutanto, we offer a short post on the incredible ignorance of the TBI Director. How long were you the manager of TBI Kelapa Gading? For two years and five months. How many times did Mariam Kartikatresni contact you personally during that period…
We originally intended to proceed to the alleged theft committed by Niah, the first Office Supervisor, but before turning to that matter, we thought we should investigate the issue of how culpable Pauwsan Sutanto (the franchisee) was for the chronic staff churn at TBI Kelapa Gading in 2006-2008. Do you believe BF that Pauwsan Sutanto…
How was staff retention during BF’s time as School Manager of TBI Kelapa Gading? You would have to say chronically bad. I know that it opened with 6 expat teachers in early 2006 and by the time I came two and a half years later, there were only 3, including me. I heard from the…
There is an Australasian idiom go bung which means to collapse or fail in an embarrassing manner. In this interview we examine why TBI Kelapa Gading went bung. Why did TBI Kelapa Gading become a failure? In my first nine months there, I was a class teacher and I was really focused on that. Those nine months date…
What can you tell us about the establishment of TBI Kelapa Gading? The school was opened in 2006 as a Franchise school. It was sold to a group of three different owners / investors by Retty, who was then the Head of Franchise and who had sold all of the TBI franchise schools to investors.…
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