How to Promote Contributorship and Data Sharing to Cultivate Research Integrity

Published papers are used as a proxy indicator of research integrity by the Indonesian government, which is often not true. Contributorship is more important than authorship to us. Authorship is part of contributorship and not the other way around. Although CREDIT is now the standard for submission of papers, the Draft Regulation of the Head of LIPI (now the National Research and Innovation Agency) refers to the author's role and the 14 contributing roles in CREDIT. Data also builds research integrity, not just the one embedded in the research outcomes, but also the raw data that can be reused by other researchers. Other researchers should be able to access and use the data as well as cite the data. As a result of the belief that sharing data would violate ethics, the data-sharing culture has not yet been rooted in Indonesia. A detailed discussion of the problems associated with the way Indonesian scientists approach to research is provided in this article. Western university alumni mainly took a literal approach to the issue since they compared the practices in their place of study with those in Indonesia and expressed disappointment at the disparities. In essence, ethics is about "explaining why an action can be morally justified" rather than a matter of "may or may not". If a case with ethical nuances "sticks out", the punitive approach (punitive, retributive) is often heard. It is essential to avoid the above-mentioned three approaches during the early stages of debriefing for novice lecturers and researchers.