Indonesian English Lecturers’ Perspective Toward Plagiarism

Plagiarism has been an enourmous issue amongst academicians arround the world today. Since it deals with copy rights ethics, patchwriting, textual borrowing, language re-use and intertextuality, lecturers from all disciplines should be aware in how to handle. Plagiarism is also resulted from cultural values and educational background. In stead of punishing their students, lecturers need to give well information about how to write and cite properly, so this misbehave can be avoided. This paper is based on a case study revealing 10 English lecturers in a private university in Indonesia how they detecting and combating plagiarism in their class. The finding is that they all teach how to write and cite properly but only some of them still need to improve their knowledge about free and paid electronic translation service and uncommon formating and language that are not commonly used in their assignments which might be used by their students. These lecturers also apply strategies to detact plagiarism in their students’ essay and they are very positive in combating plagiarism. The finding of this study can inspire teachers, lecturers and academicians from all disciplines to be aware and combat plagiarism in their real and daily academic duties.