Editorial Policies

 

Aims, Focus, and Scope

Jurnal Kajian Pembaruan Hukum publishes comparative, peer-reviewed scholarship on legal reform, with Indonesia and Southeast Asia as its analytical centre of gravity and the wider Global South as its comparative horizon. The journal examines how legal systems in postcolonial and developing jurisdictions reform themselves: how transplanted norms are adapted to local conditions, how the rule of law is contested and rebuilt, and how doctrine, institutions, and social practice interact in the process of change. It favours work that places Indonesian legal developments in dialogue with other jurisdictions and treats reform in the Global South as a serious site of legal theory, not merely as a case study for testing ideas formed elsewhere.

The Editorial Board welcomes original research, comparative analysis, and theoretically grounded case studies, particularly across the following areas:

  • economic and commercial law reform, including competition and antitrust law, trade secrets, investment law, and labour protection;
  • law, technology, and digital governance, including blockchain and smart contracts, data regulation, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and digital political participation;
  • constitutional law, democracy, and legislative reform, including constitutional morality, deliberative democracy, and the accountability of elected representatives;
  • environmental and natural-resource law, including environmental criminal liability and the regulation of emerging climate technologies; and
  • the adaptation and transplantation of legal norms, examining how imported frameworks are harmonised, resisted, or reshaped within domestic legal orders.

The journal considers all methodological approaches, from doctrinal and theoretical to comparative and socio-legal. Preference is given to submissions that engage more than one jurisdiction, adopt cross-disciplinary perspectives, or contribute to scholarly debate beyond a single legal system.

New submissions may comprise articles (8,000–12,000 words), notes (4,000–6,000 words), and book reviews (1,000–1,500 words), submitted and published in English. The intended readership comprises legal scholars, postgraduate researchers, policymakers, and practitioners concerned with legal reform in Asia and the Global South.

Publication Frequency

This journal publishes articles twice a year, in January-June and July-December. 

Article Processing Charges

Jurnal Kajian Pembaruan Hukum charges an article processing charge (APC) of IDR 350,000 or USD 20, payable only after a manuscript has been accepted. There are no submission, page, or colour charges.

A full waiver is available where the corresponding author and the majority of co-authors are based in a country classified as low-income by the World Bank. Waiver requests should be sent to jkph@unej.ac.id at the time of submission, with a brief statement of the authors' affiliations and countries of residence.

Fees and waiver requests never influence editorial decisions. Editors and reviewers who assess a manuscript have no access to information about payment or waivers.

Archiving Policy

This journal utilises the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS systems to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. All content in the CLOCKSS Archive and the Global LOCKSS Network is preserved with explicit publisher permission, secured via a written contract or through online permission statements. We work closely with LOCKSS network implementers to facilitate the development of governance and legal terms that are appropriate to the implicated content, jurisdictions, rights, and access affordances.

Open Access Policy

This is an open-access journal, which means all content is freely available to users and their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download, currently being defined for this journal as follows: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA).

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Index Information

This journal is a member of Crossref, and each article carries a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Articles and abstracts published in this journal are indexed by SINTA (Science and Technology Index, Grade 4), HeinOnline, Garba Rujukan Digital (Garuda), Google Scholar, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), Dimensions, ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources), OneSearch, and WorldCat. 

Accreditation

This journal is nationally accredited at SINTA Grade 4 (Sinta 4) by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia. The journal has not been submitted for international accreditation. 

Publication Ethics & Malpractice Statement

The journal's publication ethics, peer review, conflict of interest, complaints and appeals, and correction and retraction policies are set out on the Publication Ethics page (click here).