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Organized cheating mars state university entrance exam
"Although organizers have carried out efforts to prevent cheating, constantly evolving technology has made cheating methods more advanced and harder to detect," National Selection for New Student Admissions (SNPMB) Oversight Committee Head Eduart Wolok said.
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High school graduates take computer-based exams (UTBK) for university enrollment on July 5 at the Jakarta State University campus in Jakarta. The exam is being conducted in two phases with a total of 42,463 participants. JP/Wendra Ajistyatama (JP/Wendra Ajistyatama)
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his year's computer-based entrance exam (UTBK) for state universities has been overshadowed by widespread reports of organized and systemic cheating, sparking growing concerns over the rise of "corrupt practices" within the education system.
On Monday, the UTBK organizers at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, South Sulawesi, announced that they had apprehended four individuals attempting to take the test on behalf of others.
According to Nurul Insani, the UTBK coordinator at Hasanuddin University, these individuals —commonly known as academic joki—forged several documents to carry out their actions, including test participants' IDs, exam entry cards and school enrollment certificates.
“We have reported the incident to the South Sulawesi police, who are now investigating the case,” Nurul said, as reported by Kompas.
Hasanuddin University also uncovered that several private tutoring centers, where the UTBK participants were enrolled, had bribed members of the university's IT team to install software that allowed third parties to remotely access and control the computers used for the exam, enabling outsiders to take the test on behalf of the participants.
"We don’t know how many IT staff were involved in the scheme, as our internal investigation is still ongoing,” Nurul said.
UTBK organizers at Padjadjaran University and the Indonesian Institute of the Arts and Sciences (ISBI) in Bandung, West Java, also apprehended two academic jokis who had taken the test for six participants seeking to enroll in medical schools at various universities.
