Plagiarism among academicians has been a popular issue in Indonesia for the last five years.
Some people argue that plagiarism occurs due to pressure of work to get certain level of
academic degree. Another opinion claims that it is due to incapability of writing an academic
paper. Plagiarism is definitely unacceptable and not tolerated in any context. Writing an
academic paper is is about producing a masterpiece. An academic writing should be given a
high appreciation to boost positive motivation for academicians to write and publish their
research papers. A lot of efforts have been conducted by institutions to avoid plagiarism, such as
giving academic writing lectures and citation training, and checking papers using plagiarism
checker tools. However, plagiarism still has its popularity among academicians including
students and lecturers. For this reason, it is interested to study how those academicians perceiveplagiarism. We specify the study by subjecting the research for university student. We investigate
students’ behavior towards plagiarism. Thirty-five students of a private university in Ponorogo,
Indonesia are purposively taken as sample of the study and they are interviewed to gain the data.
The results of data analysis are discussed with related literatures to draw the conclusions