- Contributors submit articles alongside with originality statement;
- Submitted articles will then be received by the Editorial Board and reviewed by the Assistant Editor in terms of the technicality of the writings;
- Submitted articles will be subject to double-blind review by two experts (Mitra Bestari), each from the Faculty of Law, Universitas Kuningan, and the Faculty of Law from other acclaimed universities. Both experts will give substantive reviews;
- The editor will review the format of submitted articles.
In reviewing submitted articles, Mitra Bestari will refer to the scoring guide given by the Editorial Board. The scoring format includes the originality of ideas, the accuracy of used theories in analyzing problems, and the writing method. Based on these elements, three decisions will be given for submitted articles: accepted, accepted subject to minor or major changes, resubmitted and rejected.
The steps point number 1 to 5 are considered as 1 round of the peer-reviewing process (see the grey area in the figure). The editor or editorial board considers the feedback provided by the peer reviewers and arrives at a decision. The following are the most common decisions:
- Accepted, as it is. The journal will publish the paper in its original form;
- Accepted by Minor Revisions, the journal will publish the paper and asks the author to make small corrections (let authors revised with stipulated time);
- Accepted by Major Revisions, the journal will publish the paper provided the authors make the changes suggested by the reviewers and/or editors (let authors revised with stipulated time);
- Resubmit (conditional rejection), the journal is willing to reconsider the paper in another round of decision making after the authors make major changes;
- Rejected (outright rejection), the journal will not publish the paper or reconsider it even if the authors make major revisions.
After the decision has been given, contributors are given a chance to improve their articles pursuant to assessment given by mitra bestari. Afterwards, proofreading will be conducted.
For Articles that have been through the aforementioned process, the Editorial Board will then decide the status and time of publication. The process will continue into final editing and layout design to be published online. The final check will then be conducted as a final step before the publication.
SAVANA: Indonesian Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law has been published online since Volume 4 the year 2017. SAVANA: Indonesian Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law is not liable to provide a printed edition of the publication, however, the printed edition can be available for the author upon request.
