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 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

Prior to the publication, this journal charges the following fees:

Article Processing Charges: IDR 350.000,00 or USD 20.

This journal offers a full fee waiver for authors from low-income countries as classified by the World Bank. Authors who require a waiver should submit a request to the editorial office at jkph@unej.ac.id prior to submission, along with a brief statement of their institutional affiliation and country of residence. Waiver requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis by the Editorial Board.

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

Jurnal Kajian Pembaruan Hukum is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards for all parties involved in the act of publishing in a peer-reviewed journal: the author, the editor of the journal, the peer reviewer, and the publisher, both internally and externally, are based on and adhere to the Committee on Publication Ethics's (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Conduct for Journal Publishers.

Editor Responsibilities

Accountability and Plagiarism: The editors of a peer-reviewed journal are accountable and responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. It is our routine procedure to run all submissions through plagiarism detection software. The result of manuscript screening should be less than 25% similarity. Also, the Editorial Board has the right to decline the submission when it is found that the manuscript is detected with plagiarism.

Fair play: An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality: The editor and any editorial staff may only disclose information about a submitted manuscript to the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Reviewer Responsibilities

Reviewers must keep information pertaining to the manuscript confidential. Reviewers must bring to the attention of the Editor-in-Chief any information that may be a reason to reject the publication of a manuscript. Reviewers must evaluate manuscripts only for their intellectual content.

Peer Review Process

The articles submitted to this journal will be reviewed by at least 2 (two) Reviewers. Every article that goes to the editorial team will be selected through Initial Review processes by the Editorial Team (editorial review). Then, the articles will be sent to the Reviewers or Peer-Reviewer and go to the next selection by double anonymous peer review process. After that, the articles will be returned to the Authors for revision. These processes take an average of 8 weeks to receive and accept a paper. In each manuscript, the Peer-Reviewer will be rated from the substantial and technical aspects. The final decision on article acceptance will be made by the Editors according to the Reviewers' comments.

Author Responsibilities

Reporting standards: Authors should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification, or inappropriate data manipulation. Authors must clearly and unambiguously describe their methods to enable others to confirm their findings.

Originality, plagiarism, and acknowledgement of sources: Authors should adhere to publication requirements that the submitted work is original, is not plagiarised, and has not been published elsewhere – fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable. If an author has used the work and/or words of others, then this original has been appropriately cited or quoted and accurately reflects individuals' contributions to the work and its reporting.

Data Access and Retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review and should, in any event, be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Ethics: Authors should only submit papers on work that has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and that complies with all relevant legislation.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed as influencing the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where others have participated in substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Fundamental errors in published works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.