PLAGIARISM
Today as I was working
on my students’ writing assignment, I found out several writings that were
quite good. As I was curious on how they made it, I checked some phrases on
their writing throughout the internet by typing several keywords in Google search
engine, and I was dazed that their writing was exactly the same as contents
from some blogs and websites. I felt really annoyed and sad at the same time
since the students were still in high school, what would happen in the future
then if this continues? I was wondering….
I think there
are several reasons why plagiarism happens. One of them is lack of self
confidence. When someone doesn’t have to courage or confidence to do something,
they tend to step back, defense their self with whatever needed to make
themselves feel save. The other thing that makes people do plagiarism is
because of lack of knowledge. It’s clear that when we don’t have knowledge of
something we will feel inferior and to overcome that people will just take
everything they find then claim it as theirs.
Plagiarism
happens mostly in educational institutions. Start from High schools even up to
university both students and teachers/ lectures do plagiarism. It happens could
be because they don’t put the real resources because they forget or they in the
first place have the willingness to do so. Recent plagiarism happened in one of
Islamic University in Jakarta that one of the lecture claimed his student mini
thesis research as his then published it. Now the case is being treated in the
high court.
Realize it or not, the effect of plagiarism is
big. If these people who do plagiarism then become public officer, the systemic
destroy is waiting for this country. Let’s start from now on, start from
ourselves to try hard to become creative and not to do plagiarism. As Mahatma
Gandhi said, Be the Change You Want to See in the World.
