Indonesian Journal of Policing and Security Studies is a double-anonymous peer-reviewed academic journal published by COLLEGIUM JUSTICIA INDONESIA. The journal is published four times a year, in January, April, July, and October, and was first published in 2026.

The journal focuses on the study of policing, law enforcement, public security, and security studies, with particular attention to the Indonesian context and issues relevant to policing and security in contemporary societies. It provides a scholarly platform for research that advances theoretical understanding, empirical knowledge, policy analysis, and critical perspectives on policing and security.

The journal welcomes original scholarly contributions examining, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Policing and Police Governance — policing institutions, police governance, organizational structures, police management, police leadership, institutional development, and governance of police organizations.

• Law Enforcement — law enforcement practices, enforcement strategies, institutional coordination, regulatory enforcement, and challenges in the implementation of law and public policy.

• Community Policing and Police–Community Relations — community-oriented policing, public participation, police legitimacy, trust in policing institutions, police–community partnerships, and collaborative approaches to public safety.

• Crime Prevention and Control — crime prevention strategies, situational crime prevention, violence prevention, crime control, risk management, and evidence-based approaches to reducing crime and disorder.

• Criminal Investigation — investigative practices, investigative methods, forensic approaches, intelligence-led investigation, evidence management, and institutional challenges in criminal investigations.

• Police Professionalism and Accountability — professional standards, police ethics, integrity, disciplinary systems, oversight mechanisms, accountability, transparency, and mechanisms for addressing police misconduct.

• Public Order and Security — maintenance of public order, crowd management, civil security, public safety, emergency response, crisis management, and challenges to public security.

• Human Rights and Policing — human rights in law enforcement, due process, use of force, protection of vulnerable groups, police conduct, and the relationship between policing practices and fundamental rights.

• Intelligence and Security — policing intelligence, security intelligence, intelligence analysis, information sharing, risk assessment, and intelligence-based approaches to crime and security.

• Cyber Policing and Digital Security — cybercrime, cyber policing, digital investigations, digital evidence, online law enforcement, cybersecurity-related policing, and the implications of digital technologies for policing and public security.

• Police Reform and Institutional Transformation — police reform, institutional change, organizational transformation, democratic policing, governance reform, and the development of accountable and professional policing institutions.

• Technology and Digital Transformation — the use of artificial intelligence, data analytics, digital platforms, surveillance technologies, body-worn cameras, predictive technologies, and other emerging technologies in policing and security.

• Transnational and Emerging Security Threats — transnational crime, terrorism-related security challenges, trafficking, organized crime, cross-border crime, cyber threats, environmental security, and other emerging threats to public security.

• Comparative and International Policing — comparative studies of policing institutions, law enforcement systems, security governance, and policing practices across jurisdictions, particularly where the findings contribute to understanding policing and security in Indonesia.

• Security Governance and Public Policy — relationships between policing, government institutions, public administration, governance, security policy, and public policy.

• Interdisciplinary Policing and Security Studies — research connecting policing and security with law, politics, sociology, criminology, public administration, psychology, technology, information studies, governance, and related disciplines.

The journal welcomes qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, doctrinal, comparative, theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary approaches, provided that the research design and methodology are appropriate to the research question and clearly presented.

Particular attention is given to research that develops new theoretical insights, provides rigorous empirical evidence, critically examines established policing and security practices, evaluates policies and institutions, or contributes to contemporary debates concerning public safety, security governance, and law enforcement.

The journal also welcomes research addressing the intersection between policing, security, technology, governance, and society, including police reform, police–community relations, digital transformation, surveillance, data-driven policing, transnational crime, and emerging security threats.

Submissions that fall outside the journal's substantive focus on policing, law enforcement, public security, or security studies may be declined at the editorial screening stage.

The journal does not limit its scope to a single research methodology or theoretical perspective. However, all submissions must demonstrate scholarly originality, methodological rigor, clear engagement with relevant literature, and a substantive contribution to policing or security studies.

Geographic Scope

Although the journal has a particular focus on Indonesia, it welcomes comparative, regional, and international research when the study has clear relevance to Indonesian policing, law enforcement, public security, security governance, or broader debates in policing and security studies.

Research concerning other countries or jurisdictions should demonstrate a clear scholarly contribution to the journal's thematic scope rather than merely presenting a country-specific case without broader analytical relevance.