May 26, Online

National Police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti stated that the police would study a report from Research and Technology and Higher Education Minister Muhammad Nasir on a self-claimed university that allegedly awarded fake diplomas to its students.

Your comments:

Oh yes, this is much more important than the invasive corruption in the police and the case against Budi Gunawan.

Deddy K.

They will probably not examine things too much since a few of their own and political elite figures have got their various university degrees in the same way.

So probably a few will be thrown to the wolves, or maybe not, and the case fades silently away, as with the case of the young fellow a few months ago who crashed his friend'€™s car and killed a few people.

Charles Marks

This has been going on for years and everyone knows it. It'€™s amazing how the police have just learned of it. Perhaps with the statement in a different interview that it was a foreign-named school'€™s diplomas, we can see that they are not paying too much attention to Indonesian universities that have been doing the same for years. Then again, that may show just how some top level police and administrators get their degrees.

X. Simaging

Unfortunately, this is not limited to Indonesia. There are many so-called universities around the world that issue dodgy diplomas.

Some are just out and out frauds, others just have lax standards. It is an open secret that sports stars at some US universities often get an easier ride and some Australian tertiary education providers are reluctant to fail foreign students (who pay large fees up front). I can'€™t comment on other countries but I wouldn'€™t be surprised to find similar deficiencies.

This, of course, needs to be stamped out globally but Indonesia shouldn'€™t beat itself up too much over it.  The Culture and Elementary and Secondary Education Ministry should conduct regular academic audits on all learning institutions. This will help identify any weak players and they can either be given time to improve and meet standards or face closure.

Scott Casey

I hope this doesn'€™t get reported too widely, otherwise some of the other local education institutions might release how economically '€œinefficient'€ they are. It normally takes them over four years to extract this much money for a not totally dissimilar outcome.

John Elliott

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