University of Isfahan Applied Research on English Language 3134-0644 15 3 2026 07 01 Supervising Students’ Final Project Writing Integrated with GenAI in Indonesian Higher Education: Perceived Challenges and Solutions 85 108 30603 10.22108/are.2026.148017.2697 EN Nurul Aini Department of English, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, UIN Syekh Wasil Kedin, Indonesia 0009-0007-7929-0512 Bambang Yudi Cahyono Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia Yazid Basthomi Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia Universiti Poly-Tech, Malaysia Nurenzia Yannuar Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia Isyaku Hassan Faculty of Languages and Communication, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia Journal Article 2026 01 05 This research aimed to measure and chronicle supervisors’ perceived challenges and solutions regarding the integration of GenAI in students’ final project writing. The study employed an explanatory sequential mixed-method design conducted in Indonesian higher education, comprising 70 public and 105 private institutions, distributed across 8 islands in Indonesia: Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara, Kalimantan, Bali, Maluku, and Papua. The research participants consisted of 290 supervisors; 10 of them were selected for an interview. The instruments were a questionnaire covering 15 items on a Likert scale with 4 levels of measurement and 4 interview items validated by two experts. The questionnaire was tested on 25 respondents to prove its validity and reliability. The quantitative results revealed that 60% of the respondents have acceptance and high agreement towards the perceived challenges and solutions on the integration of GenAI in students’ final project writing. The qualitative data mentioned that supervisors faced perceived challenges related to the issues of authentic checking, plagiarism, overreliance, critical thinking, creativity, content, source accuracy, AI Illiteracy, overoptimism, a lack of writing enjoyment, and a lack of writing self-efficacy. The supervisors mentioned their perceived solutions, namely raising students’ self-awareness of mistakes, promoting guidelines, writing an AI disclaimer, and having intensive discussions, as the perceived solutions to the challenges. The study highlights the importance of creating an official guideline as the basic foundation to manage the integration of GenAI in the final project writing. https://are.ui.ac.ir/article_30603_2587fa420e392a09ac9fba3a8d3a0f4c.pdf