Bandung Professor Quits After Plagiarizing Article

A highly esteemed university professor in Bandung has left his post and will likely be disciplined after being caught plagiarizing, a transgression that would earn most students a failing grade and a prompt expulsion.

Once a noted lecturer of international relations at the Parahyangan University, Prof. Anak Agung Banyu Perwita handed in his resignation two days ago, the university’s vice rector, Ismadi S. Bekti, told the Jakarta Globe on Tuesday.

“He stopped teaching his students as of Monday. He said he believed he had tainted the name of the university,” Isnadi said. News broke across the Web on Thursday that the Jakarta Post had retracted an article by him because it was plagiarized from Carl Ungerer, who has lectured and tutored on Australian foreign policy at the University of Queensland and Griffith University in Brisbane.

“We are going to hold a university meeting on Thursday and will decide whether or not he will be dishonorably discharged,” Isnadi said.

Mansyur Ramli, the Ministry of National Education’s director of research and development, said on Tuesday that any kind of plagiarism deserves strong and serious repercussions.

“Plagiarism deserves punishment, and in some campuses lecturers caught plagiarizing are fired,” Mansyur said.

Late on Tuesday night, university rector Cecilia Lauw was quoted by Detik.com as saying that he would not only be dishonorably discharged, but that his title of professorship would also be revoked.

“He was amongst the youngest to ever receive the professorship. He received it at the age of 40,” Cecilia told Detik.com. Nurfika Osman & Anita Rachman

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