[ppi] [ppiindia] UGM on hot seat over doctoral program

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UGM on hot seat over doctoral program 
Slamet Susanto, The Jakarta Post, Yogyakarta



Have plenty of cash and dream of being a professor or a doctorate degree 
holder? There is no need to sit through lectures or do research. All you have 
to do is pay Rp 600 million (US$65,217) and the degree will be yours.

It is well known that you can buy fake degrees over the Internet, sometimes 
even from universities that do not exist, but now Yogyakarta's top university 
Gadjah Mada is looking into the possibility its degrees are being "sold". 

A special team has been set up to investigate how students pay their fees and 
where the money goes to. 

Rector Sofian Effendi said the case was first brought to his attention by a 
high-ranking official of a state enterprise who said he had been offered a 
place in Gadjah Mada's doctorate program for Rp 600 million. According to the 
official, he said, lectures would be at the university's Jakarta branch. 

"This case needs to be cleared up immediately. We don't care who the guilty 
person is, we'll take them to court. I'm really upset about this case because 
it's tarnishing the university's image and is fraud," Sofian said. 

He said the university had also received reports of flyers being distributed, 
without the university's logo, offering places in the university's Phd program. 

Some people who have taken up the offer, Sofian said, have allegedly started 
going to lectures at the university. 

It is unclear whether they are getting invented grades or have to submit papers 
like the other students. 

"The doctorate program actually costs Rp 40 to Rp 60 million. So they have to 
pay 10 times more," Sofian said. 

The investigative team is chaired by deputy rector Sujarwadi, former Supreme 
Audit Agency auditor Zaky Baridwan and the university's internal auditor Eko 
Sulardi. 

The team has been questioning postgraduate program director Irwan Abdullah and 
plans to talk to 13 lecturers. It has also called in senior lecturer Gunawan 
Sumodiningrat, who is the Social Services Ministry's director general of social 
empowerment. 

Following the meeting, Gunawan said he had helped some Jakartans to enter the 
university but denied they paid Rp 600 million. 

He said students might have come up with the figure after factoring in living, 
accommodation, tuition and research expenses. 

Irwan, however, has strongly denied doctorate degrees are being sold, saying he 
has clarified the matter with a number of officials, including State Minister 
for State Enterprises Sugiharto, who is doing a Phd at the university. He said 
no one was paying more than Rp 6 million a semester. 

When asked whether a middleman was recruiting new Phd students, Irwan said that 
would be illegal as his office had never given a third party the permission to 
look for new students. 

"I'm ready to be questioned. This is a good chance to prove ourselves as a 
university," Irwan said. 

University records show there are a number of executives doing 
multidisciplinary Phds there, including Sugiharto, the director of fertilizer 
producer PT Pusri Zainal Soedjais; I Dewa Gde Suthapa, the director of bank 
BCA; and Setyanto Prawira Santosa, the director of state telephone company PT 
Telkom.


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