Jurnal Al-dustur

About Jurnal Al-dustur

Jurnal Al-Dustur — Full Profile

Jurnal Al-Dustur is an Indonesian peer-reviewed open-access journal of Islamic studies and jurisprudence, published by the Department of Constitutional Law in the Postgraduate Program of the State Islamic Institute of Bone — Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Bone — in Watampone, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its stated aim is to provide a platform for original articles, research findings and case studies in Islamic studies and jurisprudence from various regions of the world, with an emphasis on the theory and practice of contemporary issues. It appears twice a year, in June and December, publishes in English and Arabic, and is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Its print ISSN is 2622-5964 and its electronic ISSN is 2686-6498. The journal's name — al-dustur, constitution — signals its home in constitutional law, but its pages range across Islamic family law, criminal law, economic law, jurisprudence, gender, philology and public policy.

Identity, ISSNs and Bibliographic Record

The DOAJ record fetched for this profile gives the journal's title as Jurnal Al-Dustur, with pISSN 2622-5964 and eISSN 2686-6498, languages English and Arabic, and subject classifications in the Library of Congress scheme of BP1-253 (Islam) and KBP1-4860 (Islamic law). OpenAlex source S4210172224, resolved by ISSN, records ISSN-L 2622-5964 and both ISSNs in its array, confirming the same pairing from an independent database. The Journals World stored record carries the same two ISSNs — listed there in the order 2686-6498, 2622-5964 — so the stored identity for this post is sound, with the print ISSN being the linking ISSN (ISSN-L) in OpenAlex. The journal's articles carry DOIs under the prefix visible in its published record (articles are cited in the form 10.30863/aldustur… in its recent volumes, and an earlier volume used the form 10.30863/jad…), and DOAJ confirms that the journal operates a DOI persistent-identifier scheme. Authors should cite articles by DOI where one is given, and should use the eISSN when referring to the online edition.

Publisher, Institution and Contact

DOAJ distinguishes, usefully, between the journal's institution and its publisher: the institution named on the record is the Department of Constitutional Law, Postgraduate Program of IAIN Bone, while the publisher named is Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bone itself; both are in Indonesia. The journal's own site gives its supervised-by contact as the Department of Constitutional Law, Postgraduate Program of IAIN Bone, Jl. HOS Cokroaminoto, Watampone, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, with the journal email jurnal.aldustur@gmail.com shown on its pages exactly as published there. IAIN Bone is a state Islamic institute within Indonesia's Ministry of Religious Affairs system of Islamic higher education, and the journal is one of its postgraduate scholarly outlets — a context that explains both its Islamic-law centre of gravity and its strong representation of Indonesian legal scholarship alongside contributors from further afield, including, in recent issues, authors based in Jordan and elsewhere in the Muslim world.

History and Development

DOAJ records the journal's open-access start year as 2018, and its DOAJ record was created on 16 December 2020, with a last full review recorded on 17 September 2025 and the record last updated in September 2026 in the data fetched for this profile. OpenAlex gives a first publication year of 2019 and a last publication year of 2025 for the works it indexes, with 127 works attributed to the source. The journal's own archive shows continuous volume numbering into volume 9 by 2026 in its recent article record. The Journals World thin template previously gave coverage as 2021–2025; the DOAJ and OpenAlex evidence supports a longer history beginning around 2018–2019, and this profile reports the sourced dates rather than the template's narrower span. Growth in Indonesian Islamic higher education — with its large postgraduate sector in Islamic law — is the soil from which journals like this one grow, and Al-Dustur's bilingual English/Arabic policy reflects an ambition to speak both to domestic Indonesian scholarship and to the wider Arabic-reading and English-reading Islamic-studies world.

Focus and Scope — the Journal's Own List

The journal's official Focus and Scope page states its focus directly: the main objective is to create a platform to publish original articles, research findings and case studies related to Islamic studies and jurisprudence in various regions around the world; the editorial board welcomes original contributions in English and Arabic that have never been published; and the journal emphasises the theory and practice of contemporary issues. Its named general topics are: Islamic Family Law; Islamic Criminal Law; Islamic Economic Law; Islamic Jurisprudence; Philosophy of Islamic Law; Islamic Constitutional Law; Islamic Law and Gender Issues; Islamic Law and Philology (Turath); Legal Studies; and Public Policy Analysis. DOAJ's keyword record for the journal — Islamic law, Islamic theology, Islamic civilisation, Islamic studies, Muslim societies, Islam — matches that self-description closely. Recent published content illustrates the range in practice: work on modifying assessment for family-law theory and practice, on waqf (endowment) rulings for addiction-treatment and rehabilitation centres in Islamic jurisprudence, and on the transformation of a Sufi order in South Sulawesi from ritual community to political actor all appeared in recent volumes. A manuscript that is purely doctrinal with no contemporary or applied dimension, or purely empirical with no engagement with Islamic legal sources, will each tell only half the journal's story; the strongest submissions join text, doctrine and present-day practice.

Editorial Team

The journal's official Editorial Team page, fetched for this profile, names Lukman Arake of Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bone as Editor-in-Chief (with a Scopus identifier shown on the page) and Ma'adul Yaqien Makkarateng, also of IAIN Bone, as Managing Editor. Its editors include Jumriani Nawawi (IAIN Bone), Muhammad Ikram Nur Fuady (UIN Alauddin Makassar), Rizaldy Anggriawan (University of Szeged, Hungary), Andi Zamakhsyari Baharuddin (STAIN Majene), Syawaluddin Hanafi (IAIN Bone), Muhammad Fazlurrahman Syarif (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar), Irfan Amir (IAIN Bone), Syaifullahil Maslul (UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta), Mu'tashim Billah (UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta), Soleh Hasan Wahid (UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq / Ponorogo institution as listed), Muhammad Fakhri Amir (IAIN Bone) and A. Sri Mardiyanti Syam (IAIN Bone), with institutional names reproduced here as the journal itself lists them. That board is international in the specific way its scope predicts — anchored in South Sulawesi, connected across Indonesia's state Islamic university system, and extended to Hungary and Qatar. Editorial teams change, so authors should confirm the current masthead on the journal site before addressing correspondence by name.

Peer Review, Ethics and Screening

DOAJ records the journal's review process as single anonymous peer review, and the journal's own About page describes full peer review in more detail: submitted papers are evaluated by at least two anonymous referees for contribution, originality, relevance and presentation (blind peer review); publication decisions are made by the Editors-in-Chief on the basis of the reviews; and the editor aims to inform authors of results as soon as possible, hopefully within 30 to 60 days, in the journal's own wording. The same page notes that members of the international editorial boards lend insight and guidance, and that plagiarism detection for the journal is carried out using Turnitin — DOAJ likewise records that the journal has a plagiarism-detection policy, with a dedicated plagiarism-policy page. Authors should therefore expect a similarity check before or alongside review, should ensure quotations from classical Arabic sources are accurately referenced rather than reproduced without attribution, and should not submit work under consideration elsewhere. The journal publishes a publication-ethics page and a peer-review-process page, both linked from its own menus, and those pages — not this profile — are the authoritative statement of its current rules.

Indexing and Listings

The journal's clearest verified listing is DOAJ: the search-API queries for both ISSNs each returned exactly one result, this journal, with a full record whose details are used throughout this profile, and OpenAlex independently records the source as in DOAJ since 2018 (is_in_doaj true, with DOAJ in its listed_in array). Indonesian national visibility is provided through GARUDA (Garba Rujukan Digital), the Indonesian national reference portal, which carries the journal's articles with publisher recorded as Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bone and links to Google Scholar records for its content. OpenAlex indexes 127 works from the source, all 127 of them open access. The Journals World category for this post is Q3 and its stored h-index is 3 (see metrics below). No Scopus or Web of Science listing is claimed in this profile, because none was verified from a fetched source; authors whose institutions require those specific indexes should check the current Scopus source list directly rather than rely on any secondary claim, including journal self-descriptions repeated without a date.

Metrics — With Sources and Dates

The Journals World stored record gives an h-index of 3 and category Q3, from its SCImago-derived data. OpenAlex, in the record fetched on 19 October 2026 for source S4210172224, gives 127 works, 127 open-access works, 151 citations, an h-index of 5, an i10-index of 2 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.098. As with every journal in this batch, the two h-index figures come from different databases with different coverage and are quoted only with their sources attached. For a young, regionally anchored, bilingual journal, the meaningful signals are arguably not the aggregate indices but the trajectory: a maintained DOAJ listing with a full review in 2025, continuous twice-yearly publication, DOI registration, and a citation record that OpenAlex can already track. DOAJ also records a publication time of 8 weeks for the journal — the journal's own reported figure in its DOAJ record — which authors may compare with the 30-to-60-day review ambition stated on its About page; both are the journal's own statements, quoted as such, not independently measured times.

Publication Model, Licensing and Charges — Read the Two Figures Carefully

Al-Dustur is a full open-access journal: it provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available supports a greater global exchange of knowledge, in its own policy wording. DOAJ records its licence as CC BY-SA 4.0, with authors retaining copyright (DOAJ: author_retains true), and its articles display the CC BY-SA licence. That licence choice matters: it permits reuse including commercial reuse, provided attribution is given and adaptations are shared under the same licence. On charges, this profile reports two different verified figures without merging them, because they come from two different authoritative places at different times. DOAJ's record states that the journal has an APC with a maximum of IDR 300,000. The journal's own current Author Fee page states that article submission costs 0.00 IDR (no submission fee), but that all manuscripts accepted for publication are now subject to an article processing charge ranging approximately from USD 350 to USD 500, with the exact amount confirmed in the official Letter of Acceptance and varying with proofreading needs such as length, complexity and level of language refinement. Those two statements cannot both describe the same current price, and the journal's own fee page — which uses the word 'now' — is the one an author should budget against and confirm with the editorial office before acceptance. This discrepancy is flagged as a corrections/verification item in this batch's report; nothing in this profile invents a reconciled figure.

Who Should Submit — and Practical Advice

Submit here if you work on Islamic law or Islamic studies with a contemporary, comparative or applied edge — family law reform, Islamic criminal-law debates, Islamic finance and economic law, constitutionalism in Muslim-majority states, gender and Islamic law, turath (classical heritage) studies with present-day relevance, or Indonesian and Southeast Asian Islam in its legal dimensions — and if you value immediate open access, a CC BY-SA licence, DOI registration and DOAJ visibility over the prestige signals of older commercial indexes. The bilingual English/Arabic policy is a genuine differentiator: an Arabic-language contribution reaches a readership that English-only journals cannot offer it. Prepare carefully: follow the journal's author guidelines and template exactly, expect Turnitin screening, write an abstract that states the legal question and the sources it rests on, and budget for the fee position described above by confirming the current charge in writing before you accept an offer. Look elsewhere if your institution requires Scopus or Web of Science indexing for the publication to count, if your topic sits outside Islamic studies and jurisprudence altogether, or if you cannot accept a CC BY-SA licence for your work.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the journal's ISSNs? Print 2622-5964; electronic 2686-6498 (DOAJ; OpenAlex ISSN-L 2622-5964). Who publishes it? Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bone, Indonesia, through its Department of Constitutional Law postgraduate program (DOAJ institution/publisher fields). How often does it appear? Twice a year, in June and December. In which languages? English and Arabic (DOAJ). Is it peer-reviewed? Yes — at least two anonymous referees, per the journal; DOAJ records single anonymous peer review. Is it in DOAJ? Yes — verified by DOAJ search-API results for both ISSNs. What licence applies? CC BY-SA 4.0, authors retain copyright (DOAJ). What does it charge? No submission fee; the journal's fee page states an acceptance-stage charge of about USD 350–500, while its DOAJ record states a maximum of IDR 300,000 — confirm the current figure with the editorial office (see the charges section). Who is Editor-in-Chief? Lukman Arake of IAIN Bone, per the journal's editorial-team page.

Sources and verification note: This profile is built from the journal's stored Journals World record, its DOAJ record returned by search-API queries for both ISSNs (institution, publisher, licence, review model, APC field, languages, subjects, DOI scheme, publication time), its official journal site (About, Focus and Scope, Editorial Team and Author Fee pages, all fetched directly), OpenAlex source S4210172224 resolved by ISSN, and the GARUDA portal record for its articles. The APC discrepancy between DOAJ and the journal's own fee page is reported openly rather than resolved by guesswork.

Reading the Journal in Its Indonesian Context

To understand what Al-Dustur publishes, it helps to understand the scholarly world that produces it. Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim-majority country, and its state Islamic institutes and universities educate very large numbers of postgraduate students in Islamic law, many of whom work as judges in the religious courts, as academics, as officials, or as legal practitioners. Their research questions are concrete: how marriage, divorce, inheritance and child custody should be handled when classical fiqh, national statute and local custom pull in different directions; how Islamic criminal-law concepts relate to a national criminal code; how waqf, zakat and Islamic banking should be governed; and how constitutional arrangements should accommodate religious law. A journal housed in a constitutional-law postgraduate program is positioned exactly at that junction between doctrine and the state, and its scope list — which places Islamic constitutional law and public policy analysis alongside family, criminal and economic law — reflects working legal life rather than abstract taxonomy alone.

That context also explains the journal's South Sulawesi grounding and its wider reach at the same time. Recent content on the Khalwatiyah Samman Sufi order in South Sulawesi shows local religious history treated with the same seriousness as doctrinal analysis, while contributions from authors outside Indonesia show the journal functioning as a meeting point rather than a house magazine. For an international reader, the journal is a useful window onto Indonesian Islamic legal scholarship in English and Arabic — scholarship that is voluminous in Indonesian-language venues but far less visible internationally. For an Indonesian author, conversely, publishing here in English or Arabic, under a CC BY-SA licence with a DOI and a DOAJ listing, is a practical route to making locally grounded research citable and findable abroad without surrendering copyright. Both of those services — outward translation of Indonesian scholarship and inward connection to wider debates — are part of what a journal of this kind is for, and they should inform how its modest aggregate metrics are read.

A final practical observation for authors outside Indonesia: because the journal's editorial office, reviewers and core readership work across Indonesian, English and Arabic scholarly conventions, a manuscript that defines its Indonesian legal terms on first use, gives statutory references in full, and explains local institutional names rather than abbreviating them will travel noticeably better in review than one that assumes domestic familiarity — advice that applies, in mirror image, to Indonesian authors citing classical Arabic sources for an international readership.