Publication Ethics and Integrity

Jumat Ekonomi expects authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher to maintain honesty, fairness, confidentiality, and accountability. The journal's policies are informed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the principles of transparent scholarly publishing.

Honest reporting of community service

Authors must report activities, participant numbers, evaluation methods, and results accurately. Do not fabricate attendance, testimonials, photographs, pre- and post-activity scores, business results, or follow-up evidence. Explain what was measured, when it was measured, and what limitations affect the conclusions.

A completed workshop, delivered product, or published promotional material is an output. Claims about skills, adoption, income, employment, or sustained empowerment require evidence appropriate to that outcome. Report incomplete implementation and results that do not meet targets transparently.

Respect for partners and participants

Participation must be voluntary and informed. Obtain appropriate permission for the activity and consent for collecting or publishing personal information, quotations, photographs, and identifiable business records. Explain the programme's purposes, foreseeable uses of information, and relevant participant safeguards. Take particular care when working with children or vulnerable groups.

Institutional or ethics approval must be obtained where applicable to the activity and evaluation design. State the approving body and reference when required, or explain a relevant exemption. Permission from a village leader or organization does not automatically replace individual consent where it is needed.

Originality and responsible publication

Submit original work, acknowledge prior sources, and disclose related publications, theses, conference papers, or programme reports. Do not submit the same manuscript to several journals simultaneously. Multiple publications from one programme must make distinct contributions and explain relevant overlap.

Plagiarism policy

Editors assess originality through editorial reading and, where used, text-similarity screening. Similarity reports inform assessment; a percentage alone neither establishes plagiarism nor proves originality. Editors consider attribution, the source and extent of overlap, and its significance to the article.

Plagiarism includes unacknowledged use of text, translated material, ideas, data, images, or other work. Undisclosed substantial reuse of an author's earlier work and publication duplication are also evaluated. Limited attribution problems may require correction. Serious or unresolved concerns may result in rejection or action on the published record following assessment.

Conflicts of interest and funding

Disclose financial and non-financial interests that could reasonably influence the activity, reporting, review, or editorial decision. These may include employment, consultancy, ownership interests, paid advisory roles, close personal relationships, academic rivalry, and links with participating businesses or sponsors.

Identify all programme funding and explain any funder role in design, implementation, evaluation, manuscript preparation, or submission. If accurate, authors may state: “The authors declare no competing interests relevant to this work.” Disclosure enables assessment and does not automatically prevent publication.

Data, privacy, and supporting evidence

Retain records adequate to address reasonable editorial questions, subject to consent and applicable requirements. Include a data availability statement identifying accessible evidence or explaining restrictions. Do not publish participant identifiers, household finances, customer records, or commercially confidential information without an appropriate basis and permission.

Editors and reviewers

Assess submissions on their scholarly and practical merits without discrimination. Maintain confidentiality, avoid personal criticism and coercive citation requests, and do not use unpublished work for personal advantage. Disclose relevant conflicts and withdraw from affected assignments. Editors with a relevant conflict are excluded from handling and deciding the submission.

Responsible use of AI

Disclose substantive generative AI use in preparing text, analysis, code, images, or evaluation materials, identifying the tool and its purpose. Verify the output and describe methodological uses adequately. Routine spelling or grammar checking does not require a separate declaration. Do not upload confidential manuscripts or participant data to external tools without appropriate authorization. An AI-detector score alone is insufficient evidence of misconduct.

Complaints, misconduct concerns, and appeals

Send concerns to the editorial office, identifying the submission or article, the issue, and the supporting evidence. Reports are assessed on their substance, including concerns raised confidentially. The editor may request author explanations, original records, independent advice, or institutional investigation, and may suspend processing while a serious concern is examined.

Complaints involving the Editor-in-Chief may be directed to the publisher at lppm@unwaha.ac.id for independent handling. Authors may appeal by identifying a factual or procedural error and supplying evidence. Appropriate responses may include revision, rejection, correction, an expression of concern, or retraction, according to the findings.

The publisher supports fair editorial processes and the integrity of the published record. Author payments, institutional relationships, sponsorship, and commercial interests must not determine editorial outcomes.