About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Jurnal IUS Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan is an open-access and peer-reviewed journal that aims to offer an international academic platform. We are interested in topics related to Law and Justice over the world. Articles submitted might cover topical contemporary legal issues including but not limited to the Health, Business and Investment, Tourism, Governance, Crimes and Criminal Justice System, Environment, Family and Indigenous People associated with law and justice.

Peer Review Process

Jurnal IUS Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan will publish the only paper strictly following Jurnal IUS Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan guidelines and manuscript preparation. Those papers are read by editorial members (upon a field of specialization) and will be screened by Managing Editor to meet the necessary criteria of Jurnal IUS Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan publication. Manuscripts will be sent to two peer-reviewers (double-blind peer-review) based on their historical experience in reviewing manuscripts or based on their field of specialization. Jurnal IUS Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan has reviewing forms in order to keep the same items reviewed by two reviewers. Then the editorial board will make a decision upon the reviewer's comments or advice. Reviewers will give their assessment on originality, clarity of presentation, contribution to the field/science, Jurnal IUS Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan  has three kinds of decisions:

  • Accepted, as it is
  • Accepted by Minor Revisions (let authors revised with stipulated time)
  • Accepted by Major Revisions (let authors revised with stipulated time)
  • Rejected (generally, on grounds of outside of scope and aim, major technical description problems, lack of clarity of presentation)

For checking similarity or plagiarism, Jurnal IUS Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan Editorial Board will screen plagiarism with using Turnitin Program. For Jurnal IUS Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan similarity or plagiarism policy information please click here, the editorial board will reject the manuscript immediately.

Authors must sign the Declaration of Originality the undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the paper is original and that he/she is the author of the paper, except for material that is clearly identified as to its original source, with permission notices from the copyright owners where required. The undersigned represents that he/she has the power and authority to make and execute this assignment. This agreement is to be signed by at least one of the authors who have obtained the assent of the co-author(s) where applicable.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

By open access to this journal, we mean its free availability on the public internet, allow any users to read, download, copy, share, print, search, or link to the full texts of these article, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

Plagiarism Policy

Every manuscript submitted for publication in Jurnal IUS Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan is checked for plagiarism after submission and before being sent to an editor for editorial review.

Jurnal IUS Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan uses Turnitin Software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.

How are manuscripts with plagiarism handled?

The manuscripts in which plagiarism is detected are handled based on the extent of plagiarism present in the manuscript.

<5% similarity or plagiarism - The manuscript is assigned a manuscript ID and it is immediately sent back to the authors for content revision.
>25% similarity or plagiarism - The manuscript is NOT assigned a manuscript ID and it is immediately sent back to the authors for content revision.
>25% similarity or plagiarism - The manuscript is rejected without editorial review. The authors are advised to revise the plagiarized parts of the manuscript and resubmit it as a fresh manuscript.

Archiving Policy

Jurnal IUS Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan is archived in the National Library One Search (Perpusnas), SINTA (Science and Technology Index), Garuda (Garba Rujukan Digital).

Sponsors

Universitas Mataram

  • University of Mataram

Journal History

Jurnal IUS Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan is a journal published by the Master of Law program, Faculty of Law, University of Mataram, Indonesia. This journal aimed to introduce the variety of legal schools of thought as well as legal research outcomes by academics and practitioners in the field of criminal, private, international, constitution, administrative, Islamic, economic, medical, Adat, environment law and other related contemporary legal issues. Jurnal IUS: Legal and justice review published three times annually in the month of April, August, and December. The accepted and printable manuscript will be published online through the Online Journal System (OJS) and printed out gradually.

Jurnal IUS Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan is established since 2013, registered in ISSN number 2303-3827 on January 9 2013 for a print version. This journal constantly conducting enhancement either in substance and management including:

  1. Conducting OJS for journal management since 2015 in order to adjust with the latest journal management requirement and as a part of preparation for national accreditation through ARJUNA application
  2. Conducting thematic publication in 2013 to 2016 but was terminated in 2017 due to difficulty linking the articles with the theme and also applied single cover since then.
  3. Since 2017 the Journal website adjusted to OJS version and therefore undergone modification as follows:
  • Addition of visitor statistic
  • Adjustment on editorial board, aim and scope, publication ethics, author guidelines, online reviewer guidelines, template and online submission guidelines
  • Referencing style uses the Chicago Manual of Style.
  1. Registered in E-ISSN number 2477-815X since December 2015
  2. Since December 2016 has become a member of CROSSREF which enables each article to have a unique DOI number with DOI prefix  10.29303.
  3. Registered in the Association of Indonesian Law Journal Management (APJHI) since 2017
  4. Registered in ARJUNA and accredited nationally under decree number 30/E/KPT/ 2018
  5. Registered in ARJUNA and accredited nationally under decree number 158/E/KPT/2021

 Important Notes :

  1. In order to attract wider audiences, since Volume 10 Edition 2 August 2022 Journal IUS Law and Justice Studies no longer accept articles which written in Bahasa Indonesia. The submitted article has to be written in English (for further information please see Author Guidelines)
  2. For a uniform manuscript, the submission to issues published from December 2022 onwards the Journal IUS uses the Chicago Manual of Style in the Reference.