What is Academic Integrity?

Academic integrity is the dedication to the practice of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and accountability in your academic work and study. (La Trobe University; Monash University; The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Australian Government TEQSA)

Further, the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia (Kemendikbud) in Permendikbud No. 39 of 2021 describes violations against academic integrity divided into 6, namely:

1. Fabrication;
2. Falsification;
3. Plagiarism;
4. Illegal authorship;
5. Conflict of interest; And
6. Multiple submissions

Fabrication and Falsification

Fabrication as referred to in Article 9 letter a is the creation of fictitious research data and/or information. while the falsification as referred to in Article 9 letter b is engineering research data and/or information (Permendikbud no.39 of 2021).

Plagiarism

Permendikbud no.39 of 2021 also stated that plagiarism as referred to in Article 9 letter c is an act of:

1. Take part or all of someone else's work without specifying the source;
2. Rewrite without using their own language part or all of someone else's work even though citing the source; And
3. Take part or all of one's own work or idea that has been published without specifying the source.

Illegal authorship

Illegal authorship as referred to in Permendikbud no.39 of 2021 Article 9 letter d is the activity of someone who does not have a contribution in a Scientific Work in the form of ideas, opinions, and/or an active role related to a scientific field in the form of:

1. Joining themselves as co-authors without contributing to the work;
2. Remove the name of someone who has contributed to the work; and/or
3. Ordering other people to make works as their own without contributing.

Conflict of Interest

The conflict of interest as referred to in Permendikbud no.39 of 2021 Article 9 letter e is an act of producing a Scientific Work that follows the desire to benefit and/or harm certain parties.

Multiple submissions

Multiple submissions as referred to in Permendikbud no.39 of 2021 Article 9 letter f is an act of submitting the same Scientific Work manuscript in more than one Scientific Journal which results in being published in more than one Scientific Journal.