UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta

Plagiarism Detector, What for?

If you truly understand what plagiarism is, then you don’t need a plagiarism detector. You don’t need to ask Turnitin. Because you are the one who knows best whether you intentionally plagiarized or not. "Unintentional plagiarism" only happens to those who don’t grasp the definit...

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On a Baby at a Thesis Defense

A few days ago, I saw a post about a thesis defense at a neighboring faculty. One of the examiners showed up with her six-month-old baby. The presence of the adorable little one prompted another examiner to crack a joke: “the youngest examiner in the universe.”The joke seemed to land well, and perha...

2025-08-04 10:26:15 Catatan Pak Arif Pak Dekan's Notes 0 Comments Read More

Memorizing the Qur’an, But…

Over the past few days, I’ve met several Qur’an memorizers from across the country—ranging from those who’ve memorized 5 juz to the full 30. From my encounters and conversations with them, a few important observations stood out.First, if we’re talking numbers, it seems we’ll never run out of Qur’an...

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Index at Any Cost?

A few weeks ago, while speaking at UIN Surakarta, a student asked me a troubling question:“Sir, my article was accepted by a journal, but the editor said it could only be published if I added a foreign author.”This wasn’t an isolated case. A month earlier, a friend told me that a Malaysian writer—so...

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Citation Without Reading Is Academic Fraud

Recently, while reviewing a research proposal, I came across a familiar claim: that the use of technology in Japanese language instruction continues to face serious obstacles—chief among them, teachers’ inability to use the tools themselves. The proposal cited “Study A” as the source.Curious, I trac...

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Breaking Barriers, Word by Word: Dhomas Erika’s Remarkable Thesis Journey

Today I had the privilege of supervising the thesis defense of Dhomas Erika, a Deaf student in the Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies program. Dhomas is one of the most exceptional students I’ve ever known—she stands out, even among her peers.Back in her undergraduate days, for instance, she passed t...