The Fact Of Cancellation Of The Bandung Stikom Certificate: Starting From The Finding Of Irregularities

YOGYAKARTA The cancellation of the graduation diploma of students of the Bandung College of Communications (Stikom) has drawn the spotlight. The reason is, the cancellation has an impact on the losses of students affected by the cancellation. The case then reaped the spotlight among the public. So what are the facts about the cancellation of the Bandung Stikom diploma?

The cancellation of the graduation diploma of students of Stikom Bandung was carried out through the Decree of the Chairman of Stikom Bandung letter number 481/Skep-0/E/Stikom XII/2024 concerning the Cancellation of the Graduates of the Bandung College of Communications for the 2018-2023 Period. Here are the facts regarding the cancellation of graduation.

Reporting from Antara, the cancellation of the graduation of Bandung's Stikom alumni stems from the finding of irregularities in the Academic Performance Evaluation Team (EKA) from the Directorate General of Higher Education (Kemenristek Dikti). These irregularities are related to the process of determining the graduation of students for the period 2018 to 2023.

For this discovery, Stikom Bandung finally canceled the graduation of his students. The campus also withdrew the diploma from 233 alumni. Withdrawals have been made on 95 student diplomas. Of these, 19 diplomas were returned voluntarily, the rest were stored in the academic department. However, there are still many diplomas that are still held by alumni.

The EKA Kemenristek Dikti team found data discrepancies after monitoring the performance for the 2018-2023 period. Based on the findings, the value listed in Stikom Bandung with Dikti did not match.

"Then what must be seen is whether the thesis is being plagiarized or not," he said, "explained the chairman of the Bandung Stikom, Dedy Jamaludin Malik.

He also explained that in making diplomas, the Central Semester Assessment (PTS) should include university accreditation and study programs.

"We just set there to make the study program accreditated so yes. We haven't met the rules yet," said Deddy.

Despite the cancellation of graduation, affected students do not need to repeat their lectures from scratch. However, what needs to be done is only related to the shortage of SKS or shortcomings related to academic and administrative values.

After all according to the terms and procedures, Stikom Bandung will issue a new diploma. But students have to fix it first.

"It was canceled first and withdrawn, then Stikom Bandung will issue a new diploma if this student, for example, lacks in making his thesis, it turns out that it was found, for example, exceeding the standard. If you want to be more standard, it must be corrected first," he explained.

This graduation cancellation case has attracted the attention of many parties, including Acting Governor of West Java Beyvi Machmudin. He requested that coordination between the Education Office and various parties be carried out immediately.

"Don't be harmed. We will communicate with various parties, as well as with cooperatives. We have collaborated with them," he said, quoted from Antara.

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