Open Access Policy

Jurnal Hukum to-ra: Hukum untuk Mengatur dan Melindungi Masyarakat provides immediate open access to all published articles on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a wider exchange of knowledge, promotes academic visibility, and strengthens the contribution of legal scholarship to society.

Policy Statement

Jurnal Hukum to-ra: Hukum untuk Mengatur dan Melindungi Masyarakat is an open access journal. All articles published in this journal are freely available to readers without subscription fees, access barriers, or charges to users and their institutions.

Readers are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles published in this journal for lawful academic, educational, research, and public-interest purposes, provided that the original author and source are properly acknowledged.

This policy is in line with the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) , which supports free availability of scholarly literature on the public internet while preserving proper attribution to authors and original sources.

Key Principle: Open access allows readers to access scholarly articles freely and use them responsibly while preserving the integrity of the work, proper attribution to the author, and acknowledgment of Jurnal Hukum to-ra as the original source of publication.

User Rights Under This Policy

Under this open access policy, readers and users may access and use published articles in Jurnal Hukum to-ra with proper citation, attribution, and compliance with the applicable Creative Commons license.

Read Users may read full-text articles without payment, subscription, or institutional access barriers.	Download Users may download and save articles for academic, educational, and research purposes.
Copy and Distribute Users may copy and distribute article content with proper attribution to the author and journal.	Print Users may print articles for educational, research, scholarly, and non-commercial use.
Search and Link Users may search, index, and link to the full texts of articles.	Reuse Users may reuse content for non-commercial purposes with proper acknowledgment and in accordance with the applicable license.

Creative Commons License

Articles published in Jurnal Hukum to-ra: Hukum untuk Mengatur dan Melindungi Masyarakat are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) .

Under this license, users are allowed to share and adapt the published work for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author and source, a link to the license is provided, changes are indicated, and any derivative works are distributed under the same license.

Proper attribution should include the author’s name, article title, journal name, volume, issue, page range, DOI or article URL, and license information where applicable.

License Terms

Attribution	Users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
NonCommercial	Users may not use the published material for commercial purposes.
ShareAlike	If users remix, transform, or build upon the material, they must distribute their contributions under the same license as the original.
No Additional Restrictions	Users may not apply legal terms or technological measures that restrict others from doing anything permitted by the license.

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Author Rights

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Authors retain the copyright to their published articles while granting Jurnal Hukum to-ra the right of first publication. Authors may distribute, archive, and share their published work in institutional repositories, personal websites, academic networks, or other non-commercial platforms, provided that the final published version is properly cited.

Authors are encouraged to share their articles responsibly to increase readership, academic impact, and public access to legal scholarship.

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Responsible Use of Published Articles

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Open access does not remove the obligation to respect academic integrity, copyright, privacy, moral rights, and proper citation practices. Users must not misrepresent, manipulate, or use published articles in a way that harms the reputation of the author, the journal, or the scholarly record.

Users must provide proper citation when using or referring to published articles;
Users must not claim authorship over works written by others;
Users must not use the material for commercial purposes;
Users must not modify articles in a misleading or unethical manner;
Users must respect the terms of the applicable Creative Commons license.

Reference and Further Information

For further information on open access publishing and international best practices, readers may consult the following resources:

Budapest Open Access Initiative / Directory of Open Access Journals / Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0