Jakarta, NU Online
The doctorate of a university lecturer has been revoked because he was found to have plagiarized a paper he presented at an international conference.
Mochamad Zuliansyah’s “dissertation and doctoral certificate are no longer legitimate,” Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) rector Akhmaloka said this week. The lecturer was stripped of his degree on Monday and has since resigned.r />
Zuliansyah presented the paper at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems Conference in Chengdu, China, in 2008.
The university only learned of the plagiarism last week, when the IEEE Web site posted a notice on its Web page housing the research paper, “3D Topological Relations for 3D Spatial Analysis,” by Zuliansyah, Suhono Harso Supangkat, Yoga Priyana and Carmadi Machbub.
“After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE’s Publication Principles,” the notice says.
It says the paper contained a near complete duplication of another study on the subject, written by Netherlands-based professor Siyka Zlatanova. He presented his research at the 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert System Applications in London in 2000.
Akhmaloka said Zuliansyah’s three academic counselors had received a written warning over the plagiarism because they were “not thorough in assisting the dissertation and did not detect the indication of plagiarism.”
ITB will send an apology to Zlatanova and the IEEE, Akhmaloka said.
When Zlatavova was reached for comment, he said the theft was “the nadir of academic research.”
“I think it’s the worst thing that can happen in science,” he told the Jakarta Globe in an e-mail. “Researchers are meant to investigate new ideas and not copy old ones.”
Mansyur Ramli, the Ministry of National Education’s director of research and development, said: “Plagiarism in the academic world is a very big sin and violators deserve stern punishment.”
Bedjo Sujanto, rector of the Jakarta State University, said the impact of an educator stealing someone else’s work was huge. “They do not want to work hard and do not understand the impact of plagiarizing people’s work,” he said. “They will be labeled as thieves and receive significant social sanctions.”
But Bedjo said the repercussions should be limited to the individual and not reflect on the educational institution.
Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri , a rector at the University of Indonesia, said the bottom line of education was integrity. “We should be honest,” he said. “That is one of the foundations that we should uphold in education.”
The latest incident is the second highly publicized case of academic plagiarism here this year.
In February, a highly esteemed professor at Parahyangan University in Bandung stepped down after being caught plagiarizing.
Noted international relations lecturer Anak Agung Banyu Perwita was told to hand in his resignation after he was found to have plagiarized Australian researcher Carl Ungerer, who teaches Australian foreign policy at the University of Queensland and Griffith University in Brisbane. (jg/dar)
The doctorate of a university lecturer has been revoked because he was found to have plagiarized a paper he presented at an international conference.
Mochamad Zuliansyah’s “dissertation and doctoral certificate are no longer legitimate,” Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) rector Akhmaloka said this week. The lecturer was stripped of his degree on Monday and has since resigned.
Zuliansyah presented the paper at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems Conference in Chengdu, China, in 2008.
The university only learned of the plagiarism last week, when the IEEE Web site posted a notice on its Web page housing the research paper, “3D Topological Relations for 3D Spatial Analysis,” by Zuliansyah, Suhono Harso Supangkat, Yoga Priyana and Carmadi Machbub.
“After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE’s Publication Principles,” the notice says.
It says the paper contained a near complete duplication of another study on the subject, written by Netherlands-based professor Siyka Zlatanova. He presented his research at the 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert System Applications in London in 2000.
Akhmaloka said Zuliansyah’s three academic counselors had received a written warning over the plagiarism because they were “not thorough in assisting the dissertation and did not detect the indication of plagiarism.”
ITB will send an apology to Zlatanova and the IEEE, Akhmaloka said.
When Zlatavova was reached for comment, he said the theft was “the nadir of academic research.”
“I think it’s the worst thing that can happen in science,” he told the Jakarta Globe in an e-mail. “Researchers are meant to investigate new ideas and not copy old ones.”
Mansyur Ramli, the Ministry of National Education’s director of research and development, said: “Plagiarism in the academic world is a very big sin and violators deserve stern punishment.”
Bedjo Sujanto, rector of the Jakarta State University, said the impact of an educator stealing someone else’s work was huge. “They do not want to work hard and do not understand the impact of plagiarizing people’s work,” he said. “They will be labeled as thieves and receive significant social sanctions.”
But Bedjo said the repercussions should be limited to the individual and not reflect on the educational institution.
Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri , a rector at the University of Indonesia, said the bottom line of education was integrity. “We should be honest,” he said. “That is one of the foundations that we should uphold in education.”
The latest incident is the second highly publicized case of academic plagiarism here this year.
In February, a highly esteemed professor at Parahyangan University in Bandung stepped down after being caught plagiarizing.
Noted international relations lecturer Anak Agung Banyu Perwita was told to hand in his resignation after he was found to have plagiarized Australian researcher Carl Ungerer, who teaches Australian foreign policy at the University of Queensland and Griffith University in Brisbane. (jg/dar)
