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As one of the negative impacts of technology development, the easy access to any information on the internet creates a new problem on academic integrity, in which the students take other’s works and claim as theirs. This phenomenon is termed as plagiarism which is against the academic ethics and honesty. Many universities have fought back the plagiarism cases and used plagiarism detection software as their tools in detecting plagiarism. Turnitin, as one of plagiarism detection software widely used in many universities, has been claimed as effective software in detecting plagiarism. However, prior studies have also revealed its inaccuracy in dealing with plagiarism cases. Reflecting from the both views of Turnitin, students’ view on its utilization may bring an essential consideration on the existence of Turnitin in detecting plagiarism. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the utilization of Turnitin based on students’ perspective and explored their responses and perceptions toward plagiarism detected by Turnitin. A case study was conducted in one classroom consisted of 20 EFL students in a university in Bandung, Indonesia. The data were taken from self-reflection questionnaire and the result shows that many students had unexpected results due to their misunderstanding about plagiarism and Turnitin system. It led to students’ unsatisfying responses toward their result of similarity percentage from Turnitin. Even though several benefits on writing skill improvement were found by the students, the inaccuracy result of Turnitin evaluation raised their negative attitude toward its utilization as well. Therefore, equal understanding between the lecturer and the students on plagiarism and Turnitin system is needed. Moreover, lecturer’s cross-checking, feedback on students’ academic writing, and additional change on the system configuration in detecting plagiarism are required to avoid any misconception of plagiarism. Further research on different respondents or different plagiarism detection software is recommended to be conducted.

Since 2007, seven villages in Tebingtinggi Timur have been listed on the concession scheme of Industrial Plantation Forest of PT. LUM, covering area of 10,390 Ha. At the end of 2008, PT LUM began to built canals for land clearing and transporting acacia seeds to the area. Since canalization, the surrounding land, especially community land, began to dried up, triggering forest f ire in the area. The peak occured in 2014, when big forest fire occured, devouring more than 2400 Ha of community land in Sungai Tohor and its surrounding. In 2014, the community invited President Jokowi to do “Blusukan Asap” in Tebingtinggi Timur, and resulted on the revoking of PT. LUM’s permit and handed over forest management to the 7 villages with Social Forestry (Village Forest) scheme. Currently, the community is on the process to manage social forestry, and some settlement and livelihood area on social forestry will be excluded from the concession, based on Presidential Regulation No. 88 of 2017 about the Change of Forest Area Boundaries. By observation and direct involvement with the community, this study found that the level of participation and motivation of the community to manage village forest is high. Intisari: Sejak tahun 2007, tujuh desa di Tebingtinggi Timur masuk dalam skema konsesi Hutan Tanaman Industri PT LUM, seluas 10.390 Ha. Akhir tahun 2008 PT LUM mulai beroperasi membangun kanal untuk kepentingan land clearing dan memasukan bibit akasia. Sejak kanalisasi, lahan sekitarnya terutama lahan masyarakat mulai mengering dan kebakaran mulai terjadi. Puncaknya terjadi pada tahun 2014 yang menghabiskan lahan masyarakat lebih dari 2400 Ha. Tahun 2014 masyarakat mengundang Presiden Jokowi untuk “Blusukan Asap” di Tebingtinggi Timur. Pasca blusukan asap, presiden lewat Menteri LHK mencabut izin PT LUM dan menyerahkan klelola hutan ke 7 desa dengan skema Perhutanan Sosial (Hutan Desa). Kini masyarakat sedang memproses untuk mengelola hutan tersebut dan berusaha untuk mengeluarkan sebagian dari Hutan Desa, khususnya pemukiman dan lahan penghidupan agar diselesaikan lewat Perpres No. 88 Tahun 2017, perubahan tata batas wilayah hutan. Dengan observasi dan pelibatan langsung ke masyarakat, temuan dalam kajian ini menunjukkan tingkat partisipasi dan motivasi warga desa cukup tinggi untuk mengelola hutan desanya.