About the Journal

Focus and Scope

ARENA HUKUM is an open-access peer-reviewed journal published by the Faculty of Law, University of Brawijaya, (since 1979) and is now published regularly in April, August and December. ARENA HUKUM, which mediates the dissemination of academics, researchers, and practitioners in the field of law from around the world. Its editorial objective is to offer an academic platform for cross-border legal research where the boundaries of a particular topic matter such as Civil Law, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and International Law, with the scope of justice, certainty and expediency. All articles submitted to this journal must use the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, Mendeley, Turnitin, and since 2024 shall be written in English.

ARENA HUKUM is a member of CROSSREF, Indonesian Law Journal Association (APJHI), has been indexed in ISJD, IPI, GOOGLE SCHOLAR, ONESEARCH, EBSCO and reviewed in ASEAN CITATION INDEX and PROQUEST, and is accredited for five years as a scientific journal based on Decree of the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia : SK No. 158/E/KPT/2021 dated 29th December 2021 (2021 - 2025) and indexed in SINTA 2. DOI prefix is 10.21776, therefore all articles published by ARENA HUKUM will have unique DOI number.

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

Arena Hukum welcomes article submissions and does not charge Article Processing Charges (APCs). Beware of scams/fraud on behalf of Arena Hukum!!!

Article Submission: 0.00 (USD)
Authors are not required to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.

Article Publication Charges (APCs): 0.00 (USD)
For Libraries/Individuals, can read and download any full-text articles for free of charge.

Peer Review Process

ARENA HUKUM is an open-access peer reviewed journal that mediate the dissemination of academicians, researchers and practitioners in law. 

Submitted articles will be pre-reviewed by the editors, determining whether the manuscripts have conformed to Arena Hukum author guidelines. Articles which have conformed to the journal's template will be peer-reviewed. Arena Hukum is a double blind peer-reviewed journal which involves many reviewers of experts in relevant field of laws. Final decision of articles acceptance is  decided by the editors according to reviewers' suggestion.

Generally, the candidate of reviewers will be chosen based on their reputation in the national publication number and quality. Next step, The Editor send the invitation letter for each candidate of reviewer. After the candidate of reviewer informed their availabilities for reviewing process, Editor create account for each reviewer and then send manuscript by OJS.

Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are not allowed. Arena Hukum uses plagiarism detector to screen articles for detecting plagiarism. Detection of overlapping and similar text is used there and so quotations and appropriate citations have to be used whenever required.

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. All the published Open Access articles will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

Archiving

The LOCKSS of the ARENA HUKUM can be found at this link: https://arenahukum.ub.ac.id/index.php/arena/gateway/lockss

For the LOCKSS system in journalism, assures the intactness of its stored content, by cooperating with other LOCKSS systems in the same network to compare copies. This activity takes place both during and after ingest. A sophisticated protocol prevents nodes from falsifying or feigning result to the comparison operations and authorizes repairs only above certain consensus thresholds. This approach is resilient to a broad array of threats.

Or, using COPE as the third party permission for the final result. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included in your article, must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the sources within your article using Elsevier’s Permission request and license form (word).

Example: This journal using the LOCKSS system to create and distributed archiving system between participating libraries and permits those libraries to creating permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. The LOCKSS system provides open-source technologies and services for high-confidence, resilient, and secure digital preservation. 

This journal using the COPE system to create and distributed archiving system between participating libraries and permits those libraries to creating permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. COPE system obtaining permission from the copyright owners and credit the sources within the article using Elsevier’s Permission request and license.

Plagiarism Policy

  • Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are not allowed;
  • The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted;
  • 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 behavior and is unacceptable;
  • Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Working Process:

  1. Editorial Team checking manuscript on offline and online database manually (checking proper citation and quotation);
  2. Editorial Team checking manuscript by using Turnitin. If it is found plagiarism indication (more than 20%), the board will reject the manuscript immediately.

Revenue Sources, Advertising and Direct Marketing
Fully funded by the Faculty of Law, University of Brawijaya, ARENA HUKUM does not use other sources of revenue, advertising, and direct marketing in order to not affect the independence and impartiality in making editorial decisions regarding published articles.