Journal profile
Arena Hukum
ISSN 0126-0235 · eISSN 2527-4406 · University of Brawijaya · Indonesia
Arena Hukum: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 16 weeks (community reports); 26 articles in 2025; the journal's website says submissions are paused or closed.
The journal's website says submissions are paused or closed: This journal is not accepting submissions at this time. Source ↗Publisher website ·
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Arena Hukum is published by University of Brawijaya. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Indonesian Legal and Regulatory Studies, Legal Studies and Policies and Legal and Policy Analysis in Indonesia, together about 60.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Law and Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
ARENA HUKUM is a peer-reviewed legal journal that provides a critical academic forum for the development of legal scholarship with a distinctive emphasis on Indonesia. It seeks to enrich legal discourses by publishing research that not only meets international academic standards but also reflects the complexities, challenges, and innovations within Indonesia’s legal landscape. The journal embraces the diversity of Indonesia’s legal traditions—including civil law influences, customary (adat) law, Islamic law, and statutory law—and encourages studies that explore how these systems interact, overlap, or evolve in response to domestic and global developments. It recognizes law as both a normative and socio-cultural institution, deeply embedded in Indonesia’s plural society and its democratic transition. With a focus on justice, legal certainty, and expediency as foundational principles, ARENA HUKUM publishes works that analyze the legal implications of state policy, institutional reform, economic transformation, digital innovation, and environmental governance. Topics of interest include civil and criminal law reform, constitutional and administrative law dynamics, the role of international law in national legislation, and Indonesia’s approach to transnational legal issues. Moreover, the ARENA HUKUM encourages contributions that revisit classical legal doctrines through the lens of Indonesian legal history and contemporary practice. By situating Indonesia within broader regional and global legal transformations, ARENA HUKUM aims to provide a meaningful scholarly space for rethinking the role of law in shaping just, inclusive, and responsive societies. It welcomes contributions that adopt interdisciplinary approaches, empirical insights, and normative critiques—particularly those that bridge local realities with international legal discourse.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Riana SusmayantiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 7%); most named Indonesia 8, Mainland China 1, United Kingdom 1, India 1, Canada 1 (15 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Indonesian Legal and Regulatory StudiesSocial Sciences33.3%
- Legal Studies and PoliciesSocial Sciences17.8%
- Legal and Policy Analysis in IndonesiaSocial Sciences9.7%
- Legal and Social Justice StudiesSocial Sciences3.4%
- Family and Matrimonial LawSocial Sciences3.1%
- Land Rights and ReformsAgricultural and Biological Sciences2.8%
- Criminal Law and PolicySocial Sciences2.7%
- Administrative Law and GovernanceSocial Sciences2.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, ISJD, IPI, ONESEARCH, SINTA 2Publisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 17OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 44OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.29OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 448 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 16 | 16 | 44 |
| 2025 | 26 | 26 | 65 |
| 2024 | 40 | 40 | 198 |
| 2023 | 33 | 33 | 380 |
| 2022 | 33 | 33 | 397 |
| 2021 | 33 | 33 | 225 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 16 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 55 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- IDR 10
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 6,000 words
- Reference style
- Chicago
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism
- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Revenue Sources, Advertising and Direct Marketing Model summary
This journal's works is licensed under a CCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. This license (CC BY NC) allows other users to re-edit / rewrite and rebuild a work non-commercially as long as the user gives credit and licenses his new work in the same domain. This journal embed or display simple machine-readable CC licensing information. This journal allow reuse and …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All the published Open Access articles will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
ARENA HUKUM is an open-access peer reviewed journal that mediate the dissemination of academicians, researchers and practitioners in law. Submitted articles will be pre-reviewed by the editors, determining whether the manuscripts have conformed to Arena Hukum author guidelines. Articles which have conformed to the journal's template will be peer-reviewed. Arena Hukum is a double blind peer-reviewe…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are not allowed; The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted; An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manus…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- University of Brawijaya
- Country or region
- Indonesia
- Language
- English, Indonesian
- ISSN
- 0126-0235
- Electronic ISSN
- 2527-4406
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 19, Issue 2 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Arena Hukum
How long does peer review take at Arena Hukum?
Authors report an average review time of about 16 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Arena Hukum?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Manuscript length: ≤ 6,000 words; Reference style: Chicago. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Arena Hukum based?
Of the 15 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 7%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Indonesia (8), Mainland China (1) and United Kingdom (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Arena Hukum?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Arena Hukum is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Arena Hukum open access, and what is the APC?
Arena Hukum is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .