Jurnal Ilmiah Hubungan Internasional

About Jurnal Ilmiah Hubungan Internasional

Jurnal Ilmiah Hubungan Internasional

Overview

Jurnal Ilmiah Hubungan Internasional (JIHI) is an Indonesian scholarly journal of international relations, published by the Parahyangan Centre for International Studies — known by its Indonesian acronym PACIS — at Parahyangan Catholic University (Universitas Katolik Parahyangan) in Bandung, Indonesia. Its title translates simply as 'Scientific Journal of International Relations', and that plain description matches its content: articles and research reports on international relations issues, written by academics working in the field. The identity of the record in this directory is anchored on the journal's two ISSNs, print ISSN 2614-2562 and online ISSN 2406-8748, which agree with the journal's own portal listing and with the ISSN Portal record for the title, so readers can be confident that this profile describes the Parahyangan journal and not any of the several other Indonesian journals with similar names in the same discipline.

The journal appears twice a year and is managed and published by PACIS, a study centre supervised by the university's International Relations Department and funded by Universitas Katolik Parahyangan. It is nationally accredited in Indonesia at SINTA 2 level and is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. For readers outside Indonesia, JIHI is best understood as a university-based, peer-reviewed, open access journal that serves as a reference and literature source for academics in international relations, publishing in both Indonesian and English so that Indonesian scholarship on world politics can reach, and be read by, an international audience as well as a domestic one.

History and accreditation

The journal's own university portal records that JIHI has been assigned DOIs through Crossref and is included in the Directory of Open Access Journals, and DOAJ's record states that the journal began publishing in open access in 2013. The ISSN Portal record for the online edition gives dates of publication from 2014 and a semiannual frequency, with the earliest publisher named as the Parahyangan Centre for International Studies together with the Department of International Relations of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Parahyangan Catholic University, in cooperation with the university's community-service and research institute. Taken together, those records describe a journal that moved early to open online publication and has maintained a twice-yearly rhythm since.

A milestone in the journal's formal standing came with national accreditation. The university portal records that JIHI is nationally accredited by the Indonesian ministry responsible for research and higher education — cited there as RISTEKDIKTI — under decree No. 230/E/KPT/2022 dated 30 December 2022, at the SINTA 2 level of the Science and Technology Index. In the Indonesian system, SINTA accreditation levels run from SINTA 1, the highest, downward, so a SINTA 2 grade places the journal in the upper tier of nationally accredited Indonesian journals. Accreditation is time-limited and subject to renewal, so readers who need the journal's current grade for an institutional evaluation should confirm it in the SINTA system itself, but the 2022 decree and grade are the accreditation facts the publisher itself publishes.

Aims and scope

JIHI exists, in its publisher's description, to be a reference and literature source for academicians in the international relations area, publishing articles and research reports on international relations issues. The fields the publisher names as the journal's territory give a good map of its scope.

• Security studies — war, conflict, defence and human security
• International political economy — trade, finance, development and global economic governance
• Regimes and international organisations — how international institutions form, operate and change
• Gender and international relations — gendered dimensions of world politics
• Diplomacy — foreign policy practice, negotiation and representation
• Media and international relations — communication, representation and public diplomacy
• Foreign policy — the external relations of Indonesia and of other states

The journal's DOAJ record compresses the same scope into the keywords international relations, foreign policy and diplomacy, and classifies the journal under political science: international relations. Published content shows the expected range for such a journal: for example, an article on the implementation of the international convention on the elimination of discrimination against women, assessed through Indonesian elections, sits naturally inside the journal's gender, human-rights and Indonesian foreign-and-domestic-policy interests. Authors preparing a submission should note that the journal's centre of gravity is the scholarly discipline of international relations as practised in Indonesia and Southeast Asia; work that speaks to that community — through its cases, its debates or its theory — is the work the journal is set up to publish.

Publisher and ownership

The publisher of record is the Parahyangan Centre for International Studies, Parahyangan Catholic University, in Indonesia, with Parahyangan Catholic University named in DOAJ as the other organisation behind the title. Day-to-day management rests with PACIS, which operates under the supervision of the university's International Relations Department, and funding comes from Universitas Katolik Parahyangan. The journal is therefore a university centre journal rather than a commercial publication: its home is the university's journal portal at journal.unpar.ac.id, where it sits alongside the university's other scholarly journals, and its articles are published through the Open Journal Systems platform both online and, as the publisher states, in hardcopy as well.

That ownership structure matters for how the journal should be cited and catalogued. The publisher name to record is the Parahyangan Centre for International Studies (PACIS), Parahyangan Catholic University; the place of publication is Bandung, Indonesia; and the journal's DOI prefix, 10.26593, is the university's Crossref prefix, visible in article DOIs of the form 10.26593/jihi. Because the journal is funded by its university and charges no publication fees, its sustainability rests on institutional support rather than on author payments or reader subscriptions.

Editorial board and peer review

The university's journal portal names the journal's editor in chief as Angguntari Ceria Sari, and the journal maintains an editorial team page on its own site where the current board can be verified. Editorial arrangements in university journals change over time, so that page — not any secondary directory — is the authoritative source for the board's current membership, and prospective authors who need to declare conflicts of interest should consult it at the time of submission.

Peer review at JIHI is described by the publisher as a blind review process carried out by external reviewers: articles received by the editorial board pass through blind review by reviewers outside the editorial team, and articles judged appropriate proceed through reviewing to publication. DOAJ records the model more precisely as double anonymous peer review, in which neither authors nor reviewers know each other's identities, and gives an expected average of fifteen weeks from submission to publication. The publisher likewise notes that accepted articles are published online through the journal system and also appear in hardcopy, so the review timeline ends in a dual-format release rather than an online-only one.

Publication frequency and access model

JIHI is published twice a year. The university portal describes the two annual publication windows as March–May and November–December, and the ISSN Portal independently records a semiannual frequency for the title. The journal exists in print and online editions: the print ISSN is 2614-2562 and the online ISSN is 2406-8748. Readers should be aware that older cataloguing for this title exists in the ISSN system — the ISSN Portal links the online record to an ISSN-L of 1693-556X, reflecting the title's earlier registration history — but the ISSN pair in current publisher and DOAJ use, and the pair recorded in this directory, is 2614-2562 and 2406-8748.

The journal is open access: DOAJ records that it has published in open access since 2013, that it uses a CC BY licence, and that the author does not retain unrestricted copyright and publishing rights under its terms — a useful detail for authors, who should read the journal's own licence and copyright pages before submitting so that they understand exactly what rights they keep and what they grant. Articles carry DOIs as their permanent identifier, and the full texts are freely readable on the university journal portal without a subscription.

Indexing and metrics

The journal's confirmed directory presence includes the Directory of Open Access Journals, which holds its aims and scope, author instructions, editorial board information and review model. Nationally, its SINTA 2 accreditation, described above, is itself an indexing and quality status within Indonesia's Science and Technology Index. The university portal also lists the journal's citation analysis sources as Scopus, Sinta and Google Scholar; that is the publisher's own statement of where citation data for the journal is analysed, and readers who need to establish whether the title currently sits in the Scopus source list for a formal evaluation should check the Scopus list directly by ISSN, since that database's contents are the property of its owner and change over time.

No Journal Impact Factor for this journal could be verified from an official source, and none is claimed in this profile: JIHI is a nationally accredited Indonesian university journal, and its standing is properly expressed through its SINTA grade and its DOAJ listing rather than through Clarivate metrics it does not publish. Readers encountering impact-factor numbers for this title on third-party aggregator websites should treat them as unverified, a caution that applies to most journals of this type.

Article processing charges

There are no publication fees to publish in this journal. DOAJ states the point directly — there are no publication fees, article processing charges or APCs, to publish with JIHI — and secondary summaries of the journal's own homepage likewise record that the journal does not charge a publication fee. Combined with the publisher's statement that the journal is funded by Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, the model is clear: this is an institutionally funded, free-to-publish, free-to-read open access journal. Authors should nevertheless confirm the current charges position on the journal's own site at submission time, because fee policies can change, and should be wary of any third party requesting payment in connection with a submission to this title.

Submission and author guidelines

Manuscripts are submitted through the journal's home on the Universitas Katolik Parahyangan journal portal, where the journal publishes its author instructions, editorial policies and section policies; those pages govern the submission process, and authors should follow them for manuscript preparation, referencing and file requirements. The journal accepts manuscripts in Indonesian and in English, reflecting its dual domestic and international readership. Submissions go first to the editorial board, then out to external reviewers under the blind review process described above, and authors should expect, on DOAJ's figures, an average of around fifteen weeks between submission and publication, while allowing that individual manuscripts vary with reviewer turnaround and revision rounds.

Before submitting, authors should do three practical checks. First, confirm fit: the manuscript should address international relations issues within the journal's named fields, from security studies and international political economy to diplomacy and media. Second, prepare the manuscript for double anonymous review, removing identifying material from the file that reviewers will see. Third, read the journal's licence position in advance, since DOAJ records that authors do not retain unrestricted copyright and publishing rights under the journal's CC BY arrangement, and authors who need to satisfy a funder's rights-retention requirement should clarify their position with the editorial office before, not after, acceptance.

Notable features and readership

JIHI's distinctive features follow from its home. It is one of the journal voices of Indonesian international-relations scholarship, anchored in a named research centre, PACIS, whose work connects the journal to the wider activities of a specialist international-studies community rather than leaving it as a standalone departmental outlet. Its bilingual acceptance policy, Indonesian and English, makes it a bridge publication: Indonesian academics can publish for a domestic scholarly conversation, and the same journal carries work in English for regional and global readers. Its SINTA 2 accreditation gives Indonesian authors a recognised national quality signal for career and institutional assessment, and its DOAJ listing gives international readers a basic assurance about its peer-review and licensing transparency.

The journal should not be confused with similarly named titles. Indonesia has several international-relations journals with overlapping names — for example, a journal called Jurnal Hubungan Internasional published from Universitas Airlangga — and JIHI's distinguishing marks are its Parahyangan publisher, its PACIS management and its ISSN pair 2614-2562 and 2406-8748. Citations and catalogue records that carry those ISSNs, or the DOI prefix 10.26593, belong to this journal; records without them should be checked carefully before being attributed to JIHI.

The journal in its scholarly community

JIHI's place in Indonesian academic life deserves a fuller explanation, because much of its significance is invisible to a reader who meets it only through international directories. Indonesia operates a national system for accrediting scholarly journals, administered through the SINTA Science and Technology Index, and accreditation grades carry real weight: they influence how universities assess their lecturers' publications, how departments report research performance, and which journals Indonesian scholars are encouraged to target. A SINTA 2 grade, of the kind the publisher records for JIHI under the December 2022 decree, is therefore not decorative. It marks the journal as having passed a national review of its management, editorial process, article quality and regularity, and it places the journal near the top of the national ladder, one step below the highest grade. International readers should read the grade the way they would read a national research-evaluation result in any other country: as evidence of inspected process, not as a substitute for reading the articles.

Within its discipline, the journal performs a second function that directories do not capture. Indonesian international-relations scholarship has grown rapidly, and its scholars publish in a mixture of Indonesian and English. A bilingual journal based in a dedicated centre for international studies gives that community a venue in which Indonesian debates — about Indonesian foreign policy, about Southeast Asian regional politics, about the country's place in wider Asian and global orders — can be conducted at full scholarly length, peer reviewed by specialists who know the cases, and still be opened to outside readers through English-language articles and open access distribution. The journal's named fields reflect that dual audience: diplomacy, regimes and international organisations, and international political economy are universal disciplinary topics, while the steady presence of Indonesian and regional cases in its pages roots those topics in the journal's home region. For a librarian or researcher building a collection on Southeast Asian international relations, JIHI is consequently a title to hold in its own right, not a local duplicate of journals published elsewhere.

One further practical feature follows from the journal's management by a research centre rather than a department alone. PACIS, the Parahyangan Centre for International Studies, is a study centre with its own research and public-engagement life, supervised by the International Relations Department. A centre-managed journal typically benefits from a standing team, a defined relationship with the university's research administration, and a thematic identity that persists across changes of individual editors. That is the structure the publisher describes for JIHI, and it helps explain the journal's continuity: twice-yearly publication sustained over more than a decade, national accreditation achieved and published, and a stable place on the university's journal portal alongside its sister titles.

How this profile was verified

This profile was prepared from the journal's listing on the Universitas Katolik Parahyangan journal portal, its record in the Directory of Open Access Journals and its ISSN Portal record, cross-checked against the identifiers held in this directory. Facts that could not be verified from those official sources — in particular any Journal Impact Factor or commercial-database metric — have been left unstated rather than estimated. Journal editorships, accreditation grades and fee policies can change, so readers should re-confirm current details on the journal's own portal pages before submitting or citing this profile in an evaluation.

Journal facts at a glance

• Title: Jurnal Ilmiah Hubungan Internasional (JIHI)
• Print ISSN: 2614-2562
• Online ISSN: 2406-8748
• Publisher: Parahyangan Centre for International Studies (PACIS), Parahyangan Catholic University, Indonesia
• Frequency: 2 issues per year (March–May and November–December windows)
• Editor in chief (per university portal): Angguntari Ceria Sari
• Languages: Indonesian, English
• Peer review: Double anonymous, by external reviewers
• Accreditation: SINTA 2, decree No. 230/E/KPT/2022 dated 30 December 2022 (as published by the university)
• Open access: Yes, since 2013 per DOAJ; CC BY licence
• Article processing charges: None
• DOI prefix: 10.26593
• Average submission to publication: 15 weeks (per DOAJ)
• Impact factor: Not published in any official source consulted; no figure is claimed