Ijazah 233 Alumni Canceled, Acting Governor Asks For Disdik Communication Of The Fate Of Students Stikom Bandung

Acting Governor of West Java Bey Machmudin and the elected Mayor of Bandung Muhammad Farhan gave a statement at Gedung Sate Bandung, Thursday (16/1/2025). BETWEEN/HO-West Java Provincial Government

BANDUNG - Acting Governor of West Java Beyvi Machmudin asked the Education Office to coordinate with various parties, including the Bandung College of Communications (Stikom), to ensure the fate of the students there so as not to be harmed.

This was revealed by Bey following the case of the cancellation of graduation and the withdrawal of the 233 alumni diploma by Stikom Bandung.

"Later on, students should not be harmed. We will communicate with various parties, as well as with cooperatives. We have collaborated with them," he said at the Sate Bandung building, Thursday, January 16, as reported by ANTARA.

Bey said that learning from this case students must be more thorough, especially in seeing the condition of the selected campuses, such as accreditation and so on, because do not let an incident like this realize the existing shortcomings.

"We hope that students will really research again about accreditation and so on, don't let it be like this again, it must be retested and so on," said Bey.

Students are also expected to pay more attention to learning mechanisms from a campus, such as whether they will only study in a few semesters and graduate immediately or there are offers for other methods.

"And asking yourself, if you only go to college twice a semester, you can get a strange value. Things like that happen. Honestly to yourself, so regular lectures," he said.

Stikom Bandung decided to cancel graduation and withdraw the 233 alumni diploma based on the results of a review from the Academic Performance Evaluation Team (EKA) from the Directorate General of Higher Education (Dikti).

The EKA team found a number of irregularities in the process of determining the graduation of Stikom Bandung students from 2018 to 2023, until finally the 233 alumni diploma was requested to be canceled and returned to comply with the decision.

"In accordance with government regulations, namely why it must be canceled and withdrawn, because there is a mechanism or procedure that is not perfect during the issuance of the diploma," said Head of Stikom Bandung, Dedy Jamaludin Malik.

He said the results of the EKA Team decided that a diploma issued had a fair status by considering the number of SKS taken at least 144 SKS.

"Secondly, the GPA must also be the same between our data and the data at the Dikti database. Then what must be seen is whether the thesis is being plagiarized or not," he said.

Then, Dedy revealed that the factors for making diplomas that were required to include the Central Semester Assessment (PTS) of university accreditation and study programs were one of the causes of alleged violations found by Dikti of the Bandung Stikom campus.

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

He emphasized that the cancellation of graduation did not immediately require students to repeat lectures from the early semester. But what is needed concerns only the shortage of SKS and academic values to the administration that occurred during that period.

"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 said.

The campus has so far withdrawn 95 student diplomas for the 2018-2023 period. Deddy said that of that number, 19 diplomas were returned voluntarily and the rest were still stored in the academic department.

"A total of 55 percent of diplomas are still in alumni and 45 percent are already held by us," he said.