JAKARTA – The Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology (Kemdiktisaintek) is investigating the alleged forgery of identification and analysis by a quantity of Indonesian residents within the International Society of Pneumonia and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD) scientific convention in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 17-21, 2026.
Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology Brian Yuliarto stated the federal government was nonetheless investigating the info associated to the case, together with the standing of the events suspected of being concerned, the affiliation used, and its reference to greater training establishments and analysis establishments in Indonesia.
“Based on the initial information we have obtained, the parties mentioned in this case are not indicated as active lecturers or researchers at Indonesian universities. However, this issue remains a concern because it can affect the perception of the wider national research ecosystem,” stated Brian in a written assertion, Wednesday, May 27.
The two names talked about within the alleged tutorial ethics violations are Prihantini and Rivaldy Fajar. Brian emphasised that the ministry nonetheless prioritizes the precept of warning and opens up area for clarification for the events involved.
According to him, each alleged violation have to be objectively verified primarily based on proof and mechanisms that apply within the tutorial and analysis setting.
Brian reminded that circumstances involving a handful of events mustn’t cowl the achievements of the Indonesian scientific group, which has all the time maintained moral requirements and produced internationally respected analysis.
“Therefore, academic integrity must be the main foundation of our higher education and research ecosystem. The practice of data fabrication, falsification, and abuse of academic affiliation is certainly not justifiable,” he stated.
He defined that Indonesia has a quantity of mechanisms for monitoring analysis integrity, starting from universities, ethics committees, Research and Community Service Institutions (LPPM), tutorial high quality assurance techniques, to monitoring by the Ministry of Research and Technology and the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN).
According to Brian, the method of analysis by lecturers and researchers has gone by the phases of analysis from proposal submission, analysis implementation, to closing experiences that are monitored periodically.
“Research activities must also comply with applicable academic ethics provisions. The ethics committee is tasked with ensuring that research is carried out in accordance with ethical principles, including the appropriateness of methodology, data use, protection of research subjects, and compliance with scientific standards,” he stated.
He added that analysis involving people and animals should additionally adjust to the provisions of moral clearance that apply nationally and internationally.
Meanwhile, within the worldwide publication stage, scientific articles should undergo the editorial course of, peer evaluation, to the correction or retraction mechanism if violations of ethics are discovered.
“However, if these processes are skipped or not carried out properly, of course it can have an impact on the quality of research and make research data not scientifically accountable,” stated Brian.
The case of alleged manipulation of identification and analysis was first revealed by epidemiologist Wa Ode Dwi Daningrat who attended the ISPPD convention representing the Oxford University workforce.
Dwi admitted that he discovered a girl named Prihantini claiming to be Dimas Fajar Prasetyo whereas giving a scientific presentation at the highlight poster session on the second day of the convention.
According to Dwi, earlier than getting on the rostrum, Prihantini took off the identification card which learn “Riana Dwi Kurniawati” and changed it with a enterprise card “Dimas Fajar Prasetyo”.
Dwi’s suspicions grew stronger when Prihantini was stated to have modified her hijab once more when she entered one other presentation room and claimed to be Riana Dwi Kurniati in a totally different session which was solely about 10 minutes away.
Dwi additionally assessed that Prihantini’s title was not included within the summary or poster of the analysis, however appeared within the presentation materials.
After the presentation session was accomplished, Dwi requested for an evidence relating to the analysis on the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) vaccine which was claimed to have been written by 5 individuals, together with Prihantini and Rivaldy Fajar. However, in accordance with him, Prihantini was unable to elucidate the substance of the analysis.
According to Prihantini’s confession to Dwi, the group despatched 19 analysis abstracts with cross-country protection comparable to Peru, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Lebanon, to Nepal with none moral approval or collaboration with native researchers.
Dwi suspects that the summary and analysis poster include information fabrication and are compiled utilizing synthetic intelligence or synthetic intelligence (AI).
He suspected that the group’s aim was to acquire journey grants to attend worldwide conferences with out truly conducting analysis.
The ISPPD 2026 committee is claimed to have canceled the group’s journey grants on May 21, 2026 after receiving a report two days earlier.
In addition to Denmark, the analysis group can also be suspected of having attended a quantity of different worldwide conferences, together with the International Conference on Resource Sustainability 2025 at the University of Adelaide, Australia, the Outstanding Research Abstract Award in Kyoto, Japan, and the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver Single Topic Conference 2025 in Tokyo.
The alleged moral violations have been additionally voiced on social media by Dwi together with lecturers from the Faculty of Marine and Fisheries, Udayana University, Ida Bagus Mandhara Brasika, who’s at the moment pursuing a doctoral diploma at the University of Exeter.
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