Should plagiarists be put behind the bar?
Plagiarism happens when somebody or an author uses another person’s work without declare owe a debt of gratitude to somebody. Plagiarism can be intentional or not (because he/she doesn’t understand about the rule). Plagiarism is the same as robbery. Both plagiarism and robbery are criminal, because the plagiarist has taken idea, work, words, and etc from another person without permission. As we know that everything which is related to criminal has rewards, they are money paid as a punishment for breaking the law and be put behind the bar. Because of it, plagiarists be put behind the bar is reasonable.
Why plagiarism is criminal? Based on oxford advanced learner’s dictionary, plagiarism is a noun form of plagiarize that means, “Copy another person’s work, words, ideas, etc and pretend that they are your own”. If we see from Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) 4th Edition, the meaning of plagiarism is “Copy another person’s work which break the Laws of Copyright”. The keywords of two definitions are copy another person’s work and break the laws of copyright. Regarding break the laws of copyright, our government has had many regulations about that. One of them is law of the Republic of Indonesia no. 20, 2003 about punishment for plagiarists. The regulation said that university graduates who are his/her academic writing is used to get academic title, profession, or vocation which is known the result of plagiarism, it has consequences are:
1. The academic title will be lost (article 25 clauses 2).
2. Will be put behind the bar at least two years and/or have to pay 200 millions rupiah (article 70).
Plagiarism gives many bad impacts for the doer, but the doer don’t realize of them. Because, when somebody do plagiarism for the first time, he/she will not realize that his/her brain nerve has been destroyed with opinion that what he/she has done is commonplace now and there is no wrong. But actually the case is not simple like that, there are law consequences behind. Besides that, other bad impacts of plagiarism are lazy, not creative, and rely on other people. As a student, we always have assignment to make an academic writing, and in this era we always use internet as our primary source. There is no bad thing from internet as our primary source but our way is wrong. We usually take the whole article in the internet and say it as our work, and we don’t realize that what we always do is part of plagiarism and we have broken the law.
If we see from the impact in the future, we can imagine what will happen if the student who will be the leader of nation have been accustomed to do plagiarism. The leader will not have ability to compose a good program for prosperity or give dedication to society because they always take other person’s idea as them when they were a student in elementary until university. It’s an example for us that plagiarism is serious thing.
The regulations have arranged very clear that all of type of plagiarism will get punishment. So, there is no question for us. Jail is the right place for plagiarist, before our next leader are destroyed with instant ways to get something, we have to make the plagiarists cure of their habit with put them behind the bar.
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