National Awakening Party (PKB) lawmaker Marwan Jafar will meet Jusman Dalle, a college student who has accused him of having copied his article in the lawmaker’s published opinion piece.
Marwan, who is also the head of the PKB faction at the House of Representatives, is set to meet Jusman in Makassar on Tuesday, according to the 25-year-old student of the Makassar-based Indonesia Muslim University.
Jusman said that Marwan had finally phone-called him and apologize in personal. “But I still insist that he makes a public apology. As a representation of the people, he must have big heart to admit wrongdoing and apologize to the public. We'll see,” Jusman told The Jakarta Post on Monday.
Jusman has previously accused Marwan of having copied significant parts of his two articles, which were published in two different online news portals, in Marwan’s piece titled “Pengelolaan Energi Libya Pasca Gadhafi” (Libya’s Energy Management after Gadhafi).
According to Jusman, about 85 percent of Marwan’s article, which was published by national newspaper Koran Tempo on Friday, were taken from his articles titled “Quo Vadis Libya” published in okezone.com since Oct. 25, 2011, and “Perang Ideotik [Ideologi ekonomi politik] Libya” (War of Ideology, Economy, and Politics in Libya) published in detik.com since March 28, 2011.
“This is a serious ethical infringement. As an intellectual, I feel offended,” Jusman said.
Marwan has denied he had plagiarized the article.
“I did not plagiarize. We both might have used similar arguments, substance and references,” the lawmaker was quoted as saying by tempo.co.(dic)
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