Plagiarism Is Corruption
By
Fahrus Zaman Fadhly, M.Pd
Wasekjen
of Alumni Association of Indonesian Education University (UPI IKA) and lecturer
od Kuningan University (UNIKU)
In
the beginning of March 2012 seems so terrible for our education. Early morning
of 1st March 2012, Siliwangi was trembled. Pikiran Rakyat wrote on the first
page: “Three candidates of professors of UPI is plagiarist” (Thursday, 1/3).
The alumni of UPI, the Sekjen of International – Indonesia Transparency, Teten
Masduki explain that “.... there’s souldn’t be a crime in the college because
it could be stained the world of education. The suspects have to be removed. Moreover, it’s done
by the professor candidates,” (Pikiran Rakyat, 2/3).
This
embarassing news was spreading
in to the various social network sites immediately. This plagiarism was
critisized by the most people because it destroyed the credibility of the education. Furthermore, the hundred thousands of the alumni of
UPI were also stained. One of them expounded that the only way to reestablish
the image and prestige of UPI was should remove them from where they’re
teaching. The administration sanction such as the degradation
of the academic or functionally, is not longer enough, futhermore it would
manure the plagiarism action.
Plagiarism was also happened in the other universities
such as ITB, UI, UNPAR, Univesitas Negeri Riau, and Universitas Gorontalo. The suspects
were generally dishonorably discharged from their almamater, if they’re the
candidates of the professor: their position would be cancelled, and the other
academic degrees, as well as they would be dismissed of their position
structurally. There’s 21 PTN and PTS under the Kopertis (Koordinator
Perguruan Tinggi Swasta)
control that get involved in this case. The Universities’ General Director has sent
a letter to the universities in the list of cases.
Plagiarist = Corruptor
Plagiarism is actually a corruption action in the
academic world. This is an academic crime which is fundamentally able to
destroy the honesty, objectivity, justice, authenticity and the truth as the
main pillar of the scientific institutions and research center. In the college,
this is can be included into an extraordinary crime, as the same as the
corruption in the politic. Therefore, the suspects should get the heavy
punishment so that will be a deterrent effect. In contrast, if the government
uses the light punishment, the plagiarism will be significantly increased.
There
are fundamental in common beetween plagiarism and corruption : taking the property of others illegally
(stealing). Nevertheless, there are 2 aspects in differences. Firstly, the
material that is taken/ stolen. Secondly, how’s the suspects’ attitude after
they did the crimes. The material which is stolen in the corruption is mostly
in money form and it’s concealed in order to keep it latent from the others.
Likewise, mostly the corruption is done in money laundry models. Meanwhile, the
material which is stolen in the plagiarism is in the form of scientific paper
or fictions of others. However, plagiarism is much more dangerous rather than
corruption. Since the suspects demonstratively declare that it’s their own work
which is published in scientific journal or in book form after they did a
plagiarism while it’s belong to the others.
The shortcut culture, instant and the laziness has
triggered the cases of the three candidates of professors above. The creativity
which is essentially will lead us in to the authenticity, confined by the way
of thinking to get the “welfare” illegally, easy and reckless, in order to get
the worthy label as a great teacher. In addition, the subvention of being a
professor is up to more than Rp. 13 Million a month, is become a great
temptation for every lecturer to grasp it quickly.
The values of the honesty is should be given by the
lecturer in order to modeled, on the contrary, they did stole something which
is belongs to the others. Since there’s nothing that can be modeled from them
as a plagiarist, so they are no longer permitted to teach anymore. Thus, the
plagiarist is should be given the maximum penalty such as disreputably
discharged, removed their academic title and stripped from any structural
position. Subsequently, the students and the others lecturers would be avoiding
plagiarism since they considered this action as the contemptible action.
Academic sanction and credibility
According to Permendiknas No. 17/ 2010, the 1st
Article of the 1st Paragraph, plagiarism is the action which is
citing in part or in the whole of the work and/ or other’s scientific works
that admitted as their own without stating the source appropriately and
sufficiently, in order to gain the credit or values to a scientific works. In the 4th paragraph of
Permendiknas, stated that all of the universities in Indonesia should take the
repressive action by penalizing the plagiarist in order to reestablish the
credibility of the universities.
In order to reestablish the academic credibility in universities
depends on the level of the plagiarism that has been done by the plagiarist,
could be the mildest sanction to the most severe one. In the 12th
article of the 3rd paragraph, Permendiknas No.17/2010 said that the
sanction for the lecturers, researchers and the academic staffs who are
convicted of plagiarism can be in the form of warning, written warning, the
suspension of their subventions, demotion of the academic position or
functional, revocation of their nomination as a great teacher/ professor/ the
expert of the main researchers, discharge respectfully or disrespectfully as a
lecturer/ researcher/ academic staff, or the cancellation of the certificate
which is obtained from their universities. Nonetheless, if the plagiarism is
done by the professor, the sanction will be given by the Minister or the
authorized officer in the form of the dismissal their title.
The plagiarism practice can be prevented in many ways.
There are, firstly, uploading the thesis in to the internet. As the mentor,
promoter or a peer group that promoted someone to be a bachelors/ master
degree/ doctor or professor should have the appropriate device to do crosscheck
in the internet. So that they wouldn’t be doing a plagiarism since the mentors
have been given the guidance as well.
Secondly, the maximum penalties are also helpful in
the deterrent effect to the plagiarist, so that someone can’t steal any other’s
work easily. In addition, the students of S1, S2 and S3 are demanded to write a
summary of their thesis and dissertation in peer reviewed scientific journals
by DIKTI which is help them to write the scientific papers. Although these
appeal, on the other hand, also encouraged the new style of the plagiarism or
mostly known as “jurnal bodong”. This occurs as a result of the demanded
obligation and the limited media of the scientific publication compared to the
number of the students.
Thirdly, the campaign of anti-cheating and plagiarism
should be more enthusiastic done by the leader of the universities among the
students and the lecturers. To build the intellectual asceticism in the
students’ environments, therefore the honest culture and avoiding the plagiarism
action is the key point. This would be happened if the government uses the
maximum penalty for those suspects. In the plagiarism cases in UPI for example,
the academic senate should convene them openly, what’s their fault, whose
scientific works that is plagiarized and which scientific journal publisher
that published it.
Fourthly, for the newbies that entered the orientation
period, the dangers of plagiarism and the sanctions that will be given to the
suspects should be described to them as early as possible. Through various
ways, I suppose, the practice of the plagiarism will be significantly
decreased. However, when the plagiarism is done by the leader of the
universities, demand for getting the mildest penalty, so this is the key point
of the problems indeed: the damage in the universities is happened because of
the corruptive and manipulative actions that have been done by the leaders.
Wallahu’alam.
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