About the Journal

Cendekia: Jurnal Hukum, Sosial dan Humaniora is a periodic publication of scientific works originating from thoughts and research written by academics, legal experts. Cendikia is a multidisciplinary journal that focuses on research in the fields of law, social and humanities. This journal is published four times a year (January, April, July and October) by the Central Institute for Social and Humanities Studies [LPS2H]. This journal contains articles of thought and research written by academics, experts, scientists, practitioners, and reviewers in all disciplines of law, social and humanities.

Focus and Scope

The specialty of this journal is that it publishes articles in contemporary legal studies with an interdisciplinary approach. This journal will publish scientific articles in the fields of law, social and humanities that are sourced from thoughts and research. The scope of this journal relates to research results in the fields of law, economics, politics, education, communication, Islamic law, government science, human rights frameworks, socio-cultural, medical law, forensic, linguistics & philology, art, archaeology, literature, philosophy, history, procedural law, language, cyber law, and other social & humanities science fields.

Peer Review Process

Cendekia: Jurnal Hukum, Sosial dan Humaniora will publish the only paper strictly following guidelines and manuscript preparation. All submitted manuscripts are going through a double-blind peer review process. Those papers are read by editorial members (upon field of specialisation) and will be screened by Managing Editor to meet necessary criteria of publication in two weeks. Every submitted manuscript which passes this step will be checked by Turnitin to identify any plagiarism. Manuscripts will be sent to two reviewers, based on their historical experience in reviewing manuscript or based on their field of specialisation. The time period for review is three weeks. After receiving the payment, the articles are then published within two months from the payment date.

Cendekia: Jurnal Hukum, Sosial dan Humaniora has reviewing forms in order to keep same items reviewed by two reviewers. Then editorial board will make a decision upon the reviewers comments or advice. Reviewers will give their assessment on originality, clarity of presentation, contribution to the field/science.

Cendekia: Jurnal Hukum, Sosial dan Humaniora has four kind 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).

The detailed Journal peer review process is based on the following chart:

Open Access Policy

This journal is an open-access journal that provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles without charging readers or their institutions for access. Readers have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles in the Cendekia : Jurnal Hukum, Sosial dan Humaniora. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global knowledge exchange. All the The Cendekia : Jurnal Hukum, Sosial dan Humaniora publications can be viewed on the archive.

Archiving Policy

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system 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 the Global LOCKSS Network is preserved with explicit publisher permission, secured via written contract or through online permission statements. We work closely with LOCKSS network implementers to facilitate development of governance and legal terms that are appropriate to the implicated content, jurisdictions, rights, and access affordances. Our work also licensed under a https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR) Authors are required to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.

Fast-Track Review: 0.00 (IDR) With the payment of this fee, the review, editorial decision, and author notification on this manuscript is guaranteed to take place within 4 weeks.

Article Publication: 500,000.00 (IDR) If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs. If you do not have funds to pay such fees, you will have an opportunity to waive each fee. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.

Screening for Plagiarism

The submitted manuscript would be check by Editorial Team for plagiarism using Turnitin. Before sending the manuscript to reviewers, the member of the Editorial Team will first check the similarity/plagiarism by using the Turnitin tool. The manuscripts which have a similarity score of more than 25% without any excluding, tending not free from plagiarism or self-plagiarism, will immediately be rejected by Editorial Team.

AI Tool Usage Policy in Article Preparation

This policy provides guidance on the responsible and transparent use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools during manuscript preparation, in line with COPE, ICMJE, and WAME ethical standards.

1. Purpose and Scope

Applies to all authors who use AI tools for writing, analysis, or image generation in preparing manuscripts submitted to Cendekia: Journal of Law, Social and Humanities.

2. Principles

  • Transparency: AI use must be disclosed clearly in the manuscript.
  • Accountability: Authors remain fully responsible for all content, including that generated with AI assistance.
  • Human Oversight: AI-generated outputs must be verified and edited by humans before submission.
  • Originality: AI use must not result in plagiarism or data manipulation.

3. Acceptable Uses

  • Grammar and language editing.
  • Formatting or reference checking.
  • Statistical or data visualization assistance (verified by authors).
  • Idea generation or summarization for conceptual clarity.

4. Unacceptable Uses

  • Generating full text without author verification.
  • Fabricating data, references, or images.
  • Using AI to manipulate data or peer review outcomes.
  • Listing AI tools as authors.

5. Disclosure Requirement

Authors must include an AI disclosure statement, for example:

“Portions of this manuscript were assisted by ChatGPT (OpenAI) for language editing. The authors reviewed and verified all AI-generated content.”

If no AI tools were used, authors should declare: “The authors declare that no artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used in the preparation of this manuscript.”

6. Screening and Enforcement

  • Manuscripts may be screened for AI-generated content.
  • Undisclosed use may result in rejection or retraction.
  • Agrosains : Jurnal Penelitian Agronomi reserves the right to notify authors’ institutions in severe cases.

7. Summary of Author Responsibilities

Category Responsibility
AI Disclosure       State clearly any AI tools used and their purpose.
Authorship Only humans may be listed as authors.
Accuracy Verify and validate all AI-assisted outputs.
Originality Ensure all content is free from plagiarism.
Data Integrity Retain original data and make it available if requested.