Lately, we often encounter jockey services offered on social media. Then the question arises, are we allowed to be a jockey? Is being a jockey an illegal act? If so, what are the sanctions? Let's review this concern.

What is a jockey?

Before getting into the substance of jockey law in Indonesia, we also need to know what a jockey is. According to the Big Indonesian Dictionary (KBBI), a jockey is a racehorse rider, or in other contexts, a jockey is someone who does an exam for someone else by disguising themselves as an actual exam participant and receiving money. Referring to the definition from KBBI, essentially a jockey is a person who carries out activities on behalf of another person to obtain a desired result in the name of another person.

In short, a jockey is someone who does someone else's work with the intention of getting results that match the person who ordered it.

In Indonesia, the development of jockeys is not only in the context of exam jockeys, horse race jockeys. There are even jockeys to fulfill the provisions. For example, we often hear about 3 in 1 jockeys when there is a policy that cars must carry a minimum of 3 people in the car.

Even in Indonesia, jockeys are also used to get jobs. Most recently, we all know that the BUMN entrance test was done by jockeys. The author is very concerned about this fact, because it means that Indonesian people are lazy to do difficult things or it can also be said that they don't want to feel the difficulty of fighting. Such things should no longer be used as a trend or made into something normal (normalizing).

Then What is the Law on Being a Jockey in Indonesia?

To detail the discussion, the jockey that we mean in the discussion about the law of being a jockey is a jockey for the final project or can be called a thesis jockey, both law thesis jockey or all other majors.

A student using a jockey service for their final assignment is with the goal of being able to obtain a graduation which is proven by a diploma.

A diploma is an official document issued by a higher education institution to explain that the person written in the document has studied and is eligible to graduate with proof of the final assignment being done.

Okay, up to this point we agree that the goal of this jockey is to get a diploma. So actually if we know a SIM jockey, a final assignment jockey, whether it's a thesis or thesis, this can also be called a diploma jockey.

Then is the jockey practice allowed? Of course not allowed. This jockey practice violates academic ethics. As a result, scientific papers in the form of final assignments can be canceled and of course the degree can also be revoked.

Legally, this jockey practice can also be prosecuted, both users and service providers.

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.

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.

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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.