Ownership & Management

Ownership & Management

The Indonesian Journal of Counter Terrorism and National Security (IJCNTNS) is published by the Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES), Semarang, Indonesia. The journal is managed by the Counterterrorism and Anti-Radicalism Studies Center, Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang. The ownership of the journal is vested in Universitas Negeri Semarang, while the Faculty of Law is responsible for its publication and institutional management.

The Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, provides institutional support for the management and sustainability of the journal, including the resources and facilities necessary for its editorial and publishing activities. The journal is managed by an Editorial Team consisting of the Editor-in-Chief, editors, and other editorial and journal support personnel, in accordance with the journal's organizational structure. The Editorial Team is responsible for the journal's day-to-day editorial and publishing operations.

The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Team oversee the editorial process, including initial manuscript assessment, coordination of double-blind peer review, editorial evaluation, revision, copyediting, and publication. The journal operates within the institutional framework of the Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, and is supported by the Counterterrorism and Anti-Radicalism Studies Center, while maintaining the professional responsibilities and decision-making authority of its editorial team.

Universitas Negeri Semarang and the Faculty of Law provide institutional and administrative support for the journal's publishing infrastructure and services. Such support is intended to ensure the continuity, accessibility, and quality of the journal's scholarly publishing activities in the fields of counterterrorism and national security.

The journal is not currently affiliated with any external commercial organization or private publishing company, unless otherwise formally established and disclosed by the publisher.

Based on these arrangements, the journal is committed to providing clear and transparent information to authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and other stakeholders regarding its ownership, management structure, and editorial governance.

Furthermore, the journal adheres to the principles of editorial independence and the appropriate separation of responsibilities between the journal's owner, publisher, institutional management, and editorial leadership. The Editor-in-Chief, the Faculty of Law, and Universitas Negeri Semarang share the objective of maintaining the journal's scholarly quality, integrity, and sustainability, while recognizing their respective roles and responsibilities.

The Editor-in-Chief's primary responsibilities are to oversee the editorial process, maintain the academic quality and integrity of published articles, ensure the fairness and consistency of peer review, and safeguard the integrity of the journal's editorial policies and procedures. These responsibilities include ensuring that manuscripts are evaluated in accordance with the journal's focus and scope, scholarly standards, publication ethics, and applicable editorial policies.

The Faculty of Law and Universitas Negeri Semarang are responsible for the institutional, administrative, and operational support necessary for the journal's publication. The Counterterrorism and Anti-Radicalism Studies Center supports the journal's development in accordance with its institutional role and the journal's academic objectives. These institutional responsibilities are distinct from decisions concerning the acceptance, revision, or rejection of individual manuscripts.

The relationship between the Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, the Counterterrorism and Anti-Radicalism Studies Center, and the Editor-in-Chief is based on mutual respect, professional integrity, transparency, accountability, and recognition of their respective authority and responsibilities.

The Editor-in-Chief has primary authority over the journal's editorial content and editorial decisions, in accordance with the journal's established policies and procedures. Editorial content includes research articles, research briefs, case notes, book reviews, and other scholarly materials published by the journal. Editorial independence also encompasses decisions concerning the selection, evaluation, revision, acceptance, rejection, and publication of submitted manuscripts, including the timing of publication.

The Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, and the Counterterrorism and Anti-Radicalism Studies Center do not interfere improperly in the evaluation, selection, peer review, revision, or editing of individual manuscripts, either directly or indirectly. Editorial decisions are made independently by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Team on the basis of academic quality, originality, relevance to the journal's focus and scope, methodological rigor, scholarly contribution, compliance with publication ethics, and the outcomes of the peer-review process.

Through this ownership and management framework, the Indonesian Journal of Counter Terrorism and National Security seeks to uphold editorial independence, responsible academic governance, transparency, and publication integrity while advancing multidisciplinary scholarship on terrorism studies, counterterrorism, and national security in Indonesia and the international context.