Section Policies

1. Sections at a Glance

Journal Justiciabelen (JJ) publishes one section, Articles, which is open to submissions, indexed, and fully peer-reviewed under a double-blind process by at least two reviewers. The section accepts two types of manuscript:

Manuscript type	Open submissions	Indexed	Peer reviewed	Length
Research article (normative, empirical or socio-legal)	Yes	Yes	Yes, double-blind	10–15 journal pages, including references
Conceptual article (legal ideas or legal analysis)	Yes	Yes	Yes, double-blind	10–15 journal pages, including references

Each issue contains about five articles and is published twice a year, in January and July. Every article receives a DOI with the prefix 10.35194/jj.

2. Articles Section

The Articles section publishes original manuscripts in legal science that have not been published before and are not under consideration elsewhere, within JJ's focus and scope: Criminal Law, Civil Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Civil Procedure Law, Islamic Law, Business Law, Environmental Law, Health Law and Employment Law.

2.1 Research Articles

Manuscripts reporting the results of legal research, either normative (doctrinal) research on legislation, court decisions and doctrine, or empirical and socio-legal research based on field data.

• Structure: Title; authors' names and affiliations; Abstract and Keywords; Introduction (background, research problem, novelty and objectives); Research Method; Results and Discussion; Conclusion; References.
• Method: authors explain the type of research, the approach (for example statutory, case, conceptual or comparative), the legal materials or data used, and the method of analysis.
• Ethics: empirical studies explain how participants' consent was obtained and how identities were anonymised, in line with the Publication Ethics policy.

2.2 Conceptual Articles

Manuscripts offering new legal ideas, critique or constructions based on in-depth analysis of legislation, court decisions, legal theory or doctrine, including analyses of court decisions and studies of draft legislation.

• Structure: Title; authors' names and affiliations; Abstract and Keywords; Introduction; Discussion (may be divided into subheadings by legal issue); Conclusion; References.
• Novelty: the manuscript shows how its argument relates to previous studies and what it contributes to legal scholarship or law reform.

2.3 Not Accepted

The section does not accept undergraduate, master's or doctoral thesis summaries that have not been reworked into an article, opinion pieces without legal analysis, book reviews or activity reports.

3. General Provisions

The following provisions apply to all manuscripts in the Articles section.

1. Manuscripts are written in good Indonesian or English. The abstract is provided in both Indonesian and English.
2. Abstract and keywords. The abstract is 150–250 words and states the problem, method, results and conclusion, followed by 3–5 keywords.
3. Manuscripts use the JJ template and follow the Author Guidelines, including the citation and reference style. References should prioritise primary sources and recent journal articles, managed with reference software such as Mendeley.
4. Manuscripts are submitted online through the JJ OJS system. Manuscripts sent by email are not processed.
5. Initial screening. The editor checks fit with the focus and scope, use of the template, and the similarity report before sending the manuscript to reviewers.
6. Peer review. Every manuscript is reviewed double-blind by at least two reviewers. The final decision (accept, minor revision, major revision or reject) is made by the Editor-in-Chief.
7. All manuscripts are subject to JJ's Publication Ethics, Plagiarism Policy, and Article Retraction & Withdrawal policies.
8. Published articles are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, and authors retain copyright.
9. New sections. If JJ opens another section (for example case notes or book reviews), its policy will be announced on this page before it accepts submissions.