Publisher and Ownership

Transparent disclosure of ownership, publishing responsibility, governance, and editorial independence

Jurnal Multidisiplin (JM) is owned, administered, and published by Utami Publisher, Indonesia. The publisher provides the institutional, administrative, technical, and publishing infrastructure required for the sustainable operation of the journal.

Journal and Publisher Identity

Publisher Responsibilities

• Maintaining the OJS platform, journal domain, DOI registration, metadata, security, backups, and long-term accessibility.
• Supporting manuscript administration, copyediting, layout, proofreading, publication, and communication without interfering with editorial decisions.
• Supporting the editorial team in addressing complaints, ethical concerns, corrections, research misconduct, and preservation of the scholarly record.
• Maintaining transparent information concerning journal ownership, contact details, publication charges, and institutional responsibilities.

Editorial Independence

Editorial decisions are made independently by the Editor-in-Chief and editorial team based on scholarly merit, relevance, originality, methodological quality, ethical compliance, and peer-review results.

• The publisher, owner, sponsor, advertiser, or fee-paying party may not determine whether a manuscript is accepted or rejected.
• Payment of an article processing charge does not guarantee acceptance or publication.
• Editors must disclose conflicts of interest and recuse themselves from affected manuscripts.
• Commercial and editorial functions are managed separately to protect academic freedom.

Financial Transparency

All applicable charges, payment stages, waivers, and refund provisions are disclosed separately on the Article Processing Charge page. Financial contributions do not influence peer review or editorial decisions.