Sinarmas World Academy/JWA

[Yantantether]

Anyone have any experience or knowledge of these schools/campus'?

Thanks in advance.

[vincentchase]

The main campus is in the outer suburbs of Jakarta and due to horrendous traffic, that's where you'll spend most of your time. JWA is in central Jakarta. The school will work you hard but pay is barely average by Jakarta standards. The facilities are great, if that's important to you. Almost all students are Indonesian apart from the children of staff.

[hallier]

Someone I worked with is now teaching there.

It is a newish school, so there is a lot of work going on setting up systems etc.

He works hard, but likes it.

The package is ok in terms of the salary, but it is not great in other areas.

For example, the housing allowance is comparatively low and he had to spend a lot of money setting up the house out of his own pocket.

The work permit the school got was only for 6 months, which meant he paid a lot of duty on his shipment coming in (that would not have happened had the school shelled out for a 12 month permit).

As the earlier poster said, the traffic in Jkt is terrible and you are a long way out of town. You would be spending a lot of time in traffic if you lived out there.

In my view, it would be a useful school to build experience and strengthen the resume - so it would be useful for teachers new to international teaching.

[Yantantether]

Thanks guys.

40,000 after tax seems decent enough and I believe housing has been raised?

Hallier: Does your friend have anything re. general working atmosphere at the JWA school? Seems like a good place to get IB experience - would this fit?

[pikefish]

Deleted

[Smurf]

xxx

[shadowjack]

Looks good Yantantether :-)

[Yantantether]

Indeed SJ.

Thanks smurf, very useful.

Cheers Pf, also most useful.