The accusation of the fake diploma of Jokowi, UGM gave an explanation on the use of new Roman times

Gelora.co – These days, social media is animated by the emergence of a former speaker at the University of Mataram, Rismon Hasiholan Sianipar who doubted the authenticity of the diplomas and the thesis of the 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia Ir Joko Widodo as graduates of the UGM. The reason is that the thesis and thesis cover sheet uses the new Roman times which, according to him, does not yet exist in the 1980s in the 1990s.

This assignment of Rismon makes a controversy and offense among citizens. The debate between those who accepted and did not agree to meet the mass line until it was read quite noisy.

The dean of the Faculty of Forestry UGM, Sigit Sunarta, said that the information conveyed by Rismon was something that was running. In addition, Rismon is a former of the electrical engineering study program, the UGM engineering faculty.

“We deeply regret the information provided by a teacher who should be able to shed light on and educate the public with useful information,” said Sigit on Friday (03/21/2025).

Sigit considered that Rismon should not only display the diploma and thesis of Joko Widodo, but also diplomas and a thesis published the same year at the Faculty of Forestry UGM.

Regarding the use of the new Roman police time on the thesis and the coverage of the diploma, as specifically by Rismon is considered distrustful of the authenticity of the documents, Sigit stressed that that year, the students were plural using the new Roman police or almost similar letters. This is to print the cover and ratification sheet on the printing site.

“Even around the UGM campus, there is already an impression such as Prima and Sanur (already closed) which provide printing services for thesis coverage. The fact of the printing machine in Sanur and Prima should also be known because the person concerned also studies in UGM,” he added.

Joko Widodo thesis cover and printed leaf in printing, but the whole content of script writing 91-Page still uses a typewriter. “There are many student theses that use coverage and ratification sheet with a print machine,” he said.

Problem The serial number of the Joko Widodo diploma would not use clusters but only figures, Sigit said that the number of numbering diplomas at that time, the Faculty of Forestry had its own policy and that there was no uniformity of the university level. The numbering does not only apply to the Joko Widodo diploma, but applies to all graduates of graduates of the Faculty of Forestry.

Keep in mind that Joko Widodo's diploma and thesis are original. He had studied here, his classmate that he knew well, he was active in students' activities (Silvagama), he was recorded to take many courses, working on his thesis, so that his diploma was issued by UGM as original, “he said.

The same has also been transmitted by the president of the Faculty of the Forest Senate, San Afri Awang, who also regretted the erroneous information provided on social networks. San Afri said he had his own experience on the use of Font Times New Roman on thesis cover.

“I still remember when I made a coverage (thesis), running to Prima. At the time, there was already a famous place of coverage which was famous, Prime and Sanur. The problem was typed using a computer machine, I am not surprised that UGM also has a typing service using IBM PC Computer. I had used to process statistical data,” he said.

Frono Jiwo, one of the classmates of Joko Widodo while studying at the Faculty of Forestry UGM, said he was concerned about circulating information on social networks on the diploma and thesis of Joko Widodo who were considered false. Frono told me that he was a classmate with Joko Widodo who both went to university in 1980 and graduated together in 1985.

“We are classmates with Mr. Jokowi, entering in 1980. Pak Jokowi is a calm person, but if the cat is always hilarious, what is the conversation always invites laughter. My diploma can be compared to his diploma Mr. Jokowi.

While the thesis problem, Frono told all the students of a generation to write a thesis using a typewriter. While the lid, the ratification sheet and the link are almost all made in printing.

“Make the thesis uses all the type of machine, even if there is already a computer but can rarely. If the blanket, the ratification sheet, the link of any printing thesis. We three, Mr. Jokowi, me and the deceased Hari Muryono (sister of Jokowi's sister-in-law). Mulono,” he recalls.

Criminal law professor of the UGM, Marcus Priyo Gunarto, evaluated the accusation of Rismon according to which Joko Widodo had committed a diploma and a thesis falsification had to be proven. According to Marcus, there are two counterfeit action in the field of criminal law, namely false and falsification.

“Make false, which means that the original document never exists, but the authors have made a letter or an act in this case a diploma, as if there were and was original even if before it existed. It was the name that was wrong,” he said.