At The Inauguration Of UIN Palembang, Menag Yaqut: If There Is Corruption And Plagiarism, Remove From Campus

Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas gave a speech at the inauguration of the new building UIN Palembang (Feny Selly / Antara)

JAKARTA - Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas reminded that in the midst of the modernization of education today there is a tendency to manage islamic higher education in part precisely far from the purpose of Islamic principles due to the lack of competence of campus managers, rampant corruption behavior, and plagiarism.

Therefore, he insisted that the behavior of corruption and plagiarism is a mental that must be kept away from the world of Islamic higher education.

"If there is corruption and plagiarism just get it off campus, it's a virus that can be contagious," Yaqut told Antara, Monday, May 24.

He said that in the inauguration ceremony of the second campus of Raden Fatah State Islamic University (UIN RF) Palembang which was built from the help of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB)." The campus is very cool, I've been into several UIN and recently I was amazed to see a model of buildings that are not as usual, the building is adaptive to the conditions of the times," added Yaqut.

He hopes that the existence of a new campus makes UIN RF able to compete at the national and international level because human resources and infrastructure facilities are already supportive. In addition, he said, the concept of modern and cool UIN RF Palembang building becomes a stimulus for the advancement of the modern Islamic higher education sector, while maintaining the management system in accordance with Islamic principles. He also appreciated the Provincial Government of South Sumatra which has given an area of 35 hectares for the construction of UIN RF Palembang Jakabaring Campus, signifying the cooperation between the provincial government and UIN is very well established UIN Director Raden Fatah Palembang Prof. Nyayu Khadijah said jakabaring campus was built from islamic development bank (IDB) assistance funding conducted for two years, since October 2018." In total there are nine buildings built with modern concepts," he said. The construction of Jakabaring UIN RF Palembang Campus is a project to help the Development of State Islamic Religious College (PTKIN) by IDB which costs Rp430 billion. The nine units are used as headquarters, integrated laboratories, teaching faculty, psychology faculty, technology science faculty, Islamic business economics faculty and ICT library.