Manuscript Preparation and Submission Jurnal Hukum to-ra: Hukum Untuk Mengatur dan Melindungi Masyarakat, published by the Faculty of Law, Universitas Kristen Indonesia, welcomes original and methodologically sound legal scholarship. Authors must follow the official manuscript template, publication ethics, and the requirements below. Manuscripts may be returned before peer review when they are outside the journal's scope or lack essential scientific or technical requirements.

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• Originality: The manuscript must be original, unpublished and not simultaneously submitted to another journal.
• Journal Scope: Submissions must address meaningful issues in legal science, legal institutions, legislation, legal policy, justice or societal protection.
• Author Approval: All authors must approve the manuscript, authorship order and submission.
• Manuscript Type: Original Research Article, Conceptual Paper, Review Article, Case Analysis or Policy-Oriented Legal Study.
• Template: Apply the journal's prescribed structure, layout and technical format.
• Ethics: Provide complete and truthful information concerning originality, sources, author contributions and other relevant disclosures.
• Submission: Submit through the official OJS system using an active author account.

The manuscript must demonstrate a coherent relationship between the legal problem, existing scholarship, research gap, method, analysis, findings and contribution.

Authors must select and justify an appropriate approach rather than listing methods without explaining their use.

• Normative or Doctrinal: Identify the statutory, conceptual, case, historical or comparative approach, legal materials, their selection and method of interpretation.
• Empirical or Socio-Legal: Describe the research setting, participants or units of analysis, sampling, interviews, observations, documentary sources and analytical procedures where applicable.
• Comparative Legal: Explain the jurisdictions or legal systems compared, selection rationale and common analytical criteria.
• Case Analysis: Identify the decision or legal dispute, its relevance, governing legal framework and method of examining judicial reasoning.
• Legal Policy Research: Describe the policy, evaluative criteria, supporting evidence and approach to assessing regulatory implementation or impact.

Authors are expected to explain:

1. State of the Art: What authoritative legal scholarship and previous studies have established.
2. Research Gap: What doctrinal question, regulatory inconsistency, empirical issue or analytical limitation remains unresolved.
3. Novelty: What new interpretation, evidence, comparison, conceptual refinement or legal argument the article contributes.
4. Research Objective: What legal question the study seeks to answer and why the answer matters.

Novelty may be theoretical, doctrinal, methodological, empirical, comparative or policy-oriented. A change of location or legal case alone does not necessarily establish an original contribution.

• Use APA 7th edition consistently for in-text scholarly citations and the reference list.
• Prioritize authoritative and relevant scholarly journal articles, alongside applicable legal primary sources.
• Include significant recent literature where available, without omitting foundational legal works.
• For legislation and judicial decisions, provide official titles, numbers, years, courts or issuing authorities, and persistent URLs where available.
• Use footnotes for necessary explanatory information where permitted by the journal template; avoid mixing incompatible citation systems.
• Ensure every in-text citation matches a reference entry and verify all bibliographic data and DOI links.
• Use Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote or equivalent reference-management software where appropriate.

Authors must provide accurate declarations as applicable to the research and the journal's current submission requirements.

• Author Contributions: Explain meaningful contributions and accountability; CRediT roles may be used where appropriate.
• Funding: Identify funding agencies, grant numbers and any influence of funders; disclose absence of funding where required.
• Conflict of Interest: Declare relevant financial, professional, institutional or personal interests.
• Ethics Approval and Consent: Report ethics approval and informed consent where required for interviews, surveys, participant data or other sensitive research.
• Data Availability: Explain access to research materials when relevant, including lawful limitations on confidential records, court documents or participant data.
• AI Assistance: Declare relevant generative AI assistance in accordance with the journal's AI policy, identifying its purpose and human verification.

AI-assisted tools must not be listed as authors, fabricate legislation, invent court judgments or case numbers, manufacture quotations or references, or substitute for independent legal reasoning. Authors remain responsible for the accuracy of all AI-assisted content. Confidential case files, identifiable personal information and protected legal records must not be uploaded to unauthorized external AI tools.

For normative research, cite accessible legal authorities accurately. For empirical or socio-legal research, describe whether interview records, anonymized datasets, instruments or supporting documents are available. Legitimate restrictions involving client privilege, personal data, sealed proceedings, confidential case records or informed consent must be respected. Open sharing is encouraged only where lawful and ethically appropriate.

Tables and figures must be numbered, cited in the text, legible and accompanied by clear titles and sources. Figures should have suitable publication resolution, preferably at least 300 DPI. Supplementary materials may include research instruments, coding frameworks, interview protocols and additional legal analyses, subject to confidentiality and intellectual-property restrictions.

Manuscripts undergo initial editorial screening for scope, scholarly contribution, originality, methodological clarity, formatting and ethical compliance. Eligible manuscripts proceed through the journal's published peer-review procedure.

Editors may request revisions with a point-by-point response explaining how the authors addressed each comment. The final decision rests with the authorized editorial decision-maker. Review timelines and reviewer numbers follow the journal's current Peer Review Policy and must not be inferred from Moneta's procedures.

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication under its applicable copyright arrangements. Published articles use the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Authors must obtain permissions when necessary and provide proper attribution to third-party materials. Plagiarism, falsification, simultaneous submission and fabricated legal sources are prohibited.

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