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How Does the Law Become a Jockey?

Adam Ilyas

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15 Feb 2023 · 00:22 15 February 2023 00:22 WIB 5 minutes reading time: 5 minutes 1 read

Lately, we often encounter jockeying services offered on social media. Then the question arises, are we allowed to be a jockey? Is being a jockey an illegal act? If...

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Table of Contents

What is a jockey?
Then What is the Law on Being a Jockey in Indonesia?
What are the Sanctions for Jockey Practice?
Why Can Jockeys Be Charged with Forgery of Documents?

Section 3/3: What are the Sanctions for Jockey Practice?

What are the Sanctions for Jockey Practice?

Jockey services can be prosecuted under Article 15 paragraph (2) of Law Number 20 of 2003 concerning the National Education System which regulates plagiarism. The sanctions regulated in the UU SISDIKNAS are as follows:

Graduates whose scientific work is used to obtain an academic, professional, or vocational degree as referred to in Article 25 paragraph 2 is proven to be plagiarism, shall be sentenced to a maximum imprisonment of two years and/or a maximum fine of Rp 200 million.

Furthermore, this proxy practice can also be prosecuted on the grounds of violating Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The sanctions are as follows:

According to Article 72 of the Copyright Law, those who intentionally or without rights violate the Copyright of others can be sentenced to imprisonment for a minimum of 1 (one) month and/or a fine of at least Rp 1,000,000.00 (one million rupiah), or imprisonment for a maximum of 7 (seven) years and/or a fine of at most Rp 5,000,000,000.00 (five billion rupiah).

Based on the Criminal Code, this proxy practice can also be considered as forgery of documents as regulated in Article 263 of the Criminal Code, so it can be punished with a criminal act of forgery. The wording of Article 263 of the Criminal Code is as follows:

Anyone who makes a false letter or falsifies a letter, which can issue a right, an agreement (obligation) or a debt release, or which may be used as information for an act, with the intention of using or ordering another person to use the letters as if the letter was original and not falsified, then if using it can cause a loss is punished for forgery of a letter, with a prison sentence of six years at most.

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Why Can Jockeys Be Charged with Forgery of Documents?

As previously described, the ultimate goal of proxying is graduation as evidenced by a diploma. Therefore, because of proxying, of course the diploma issued becomes invalid because it is not certain that the person using the jockey service deserves to graduate. It could be that if he doesn't use a jockey service, he doesn't deserve to graduate. Therefore, the practice of jockeying can also be subject to criminal acts of forgery.

Thus the discussion about the practice of jockeying, hopefully this information will be a reminder for Friends Legal Literacy to avoid the practice of Jockeys. Fight and work hard with the efforts of Legal Literacy Friends themselves. Surely the results felt will be different. By using a jockey, we will lose 2 things, first we can be threatened with punishment or sanctions. Second, we have to pay for the jockey practice, and the third is that we lose the feeling of satisfaction when we have finished college. Read also the article aboutPengembangan Kreativitas Diri Anti Plagiarismewhich discusses the meaning of plagiarism, Plagiarism Sanctions, and some examples of Plagiarism Cases.