Focus and Scope

The Indonesian Minority Justice Review (IMJR) is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary scholarship on minority rights, legal recognition, equality, and social justice in Indonesia and other multicultural and plural societies. The journal examines how law, public policy, institutions, and governance shape the rights, recognition, participation, and lived experiences of minority and marginalized communities.

IMJR adopts a broad and critical understanding of minority justice, encompassing formal legal recognition, substantive equality, non-discrimination, cultural rights, religious and belief freedom, political participation, access to justice, and protection against structural and institutional forms of exclusion. Particular attention is given to the relationship between legal norms and the social, political, cultural, and institutional conditions that influence the realization of minority rights.

Areas of Focus

The journal welcomes original research addressing, but not limited to, the following areas:

  • Minority rights and minority protection in constitutional and legal systems;

  • Legal recognition of ethnic, religious, cultural, linguistic, and other minority communities;

  • Freedom of religion or belief and protection of religious and belief minorities;

  • Indigenous peoples, customary communities, and cultural rights;

  • Gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and equality before the law;

  • Disability rights, accessibility, and inclusive justice;

  • Linguistic minorities and language rights;

  • Citizenship, political participation, and representation of minority communities;

  • Equality, non-discrimination, and anti-discrimination law;

  • Access to justice and legal empowerment of marginalized communities;

  • Structural discrimination, institutional exclusion, and systemic inequality;

  • Minority rights in constitutional, administrative, criminal, civil, and human rights law;

  • Judicial decisions, constitutional adjudication, and legal interpretation concerning minority rights;

  • Public policy and governance affecting minority and marginalized populations;

  • Decentralization, local governance, and minority protection;

  • Conflict, peacebuilding, reconciliation, and minority justice;

  • Historical injustice, transitional justice, and reparative justice;

  • International human rights standards and their implementation in domestic legal systems;

  • Comparative and transnational approaches to minority rights and multicultural governance; and

  • Emerging legal and policy challenges affecting minority communities in contemporary society.

Geographic and Comparative Scope

IMJR has a primary focus on Indonesia, while welcoming comparative, regional, and transnational studies that provide theoretically or empirically relevant insights into minority justice. Comparative studies involving Indonesia and other multicultural societies are particularly encouraged where they contribute to a deeper understanding of legal institutions, governance practices, rights protection, or pathways toward substantive equality.

Interdisciplinary and Methodological Scope

The journal welcomes doctrinal, socio-legal, empirical, comparative, interdisciplinary, and critical approaches to the study of minority justice. Contributions may draw on legal studies, constitutional and human rights law, political science, sociology, anthropology, religious studies, public policy, international relations, and related disciplines.

IMJR particularly values research that connects legal doctrine with empirical realities, critically evaluates existing legal and institutional frameworks, and develops theoretically informed or evidence-based perspectives on minority protection and social justice.

Contribution to Scholarship and Policy

IMJR seeks to publish scholarship that makes a substantive, theoretical, methodological, or policy contribution to debates on minority rights and justice. The journal welcomes research that identifies gaps between legal recognition and the actual enjoyment of rights, evaluates the effectiveness of laws and institutions, develops comparative perspectives, and proposes pathways toward more inclusive legal systems and public governance.

The journal publishes original research articles, review articles, conceptual and theoretical papers, and other scholarly contributions that meet rigorous standards of academic quality, methodological transparency, and ethical research practice.

IMJR does not limit minority justice to the protection of formally recognized minority groups. It also considers emerging and context-dependent forms of marginalization and exclusion, provided that submissions demonstrate clear conceptual, legal, empirical, or theoretical relevance to the study of minority rights and social justice.