Ownership and Management Information

1. Journal Ownership

Khatulistiwa: Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan is a specialized academic journal focused on the comprehensive advancement of educational sciences and Tarbiyah studies. The journal is owned by the legal entity Institut Elkatarie, a registered higher education institution based in Indonesia. The journal operates under an open-access publishing framework to provide an unrestricted, global platform for scholars, researchers, lecturers, and educators to publish high-quality theoretical, critical, and empirical investigations.

  • Journal Title: Khatulistiwa: Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan

  • Journal Initial: Khatulistiwa

  • Legal Entity (Badan Hukum): Institut Elkatarie

  • Publishing Management Body: LPPM Institut Elkatarie

  • Collaborating Body: Forum Redaktur Jurnal Fakultas Tarbiyah (Tarbiyah Faculty Journal Editors Forum)

  • Country: Indonesia

  • Online ISSN (e-ISSN): 2808-8298

  • Publication Frequency: Biannually (2 issues per year, published at the end of April and August)

  • DOI Identifier: https://doi.org/10.69901 by Crossref

  • Indexing & Citation Analysis: Google Scholar, Garuda

2. Publisher and Institutional Affiliation

The publication and administrative workflows of the journal are officially managed by the Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (LPPM) Institut Elkatarie. As the official research and community service institute of Institut Elkatarie, LPPM provides the institutional infrastructure, IT support, hosting environment, and regulatory governance for the journal's electronic publishing operations. All manuscript handling—from initial desk submission, double-blind peer review, and copyediting to Crossref DOI minting and final galley dissemination—is executed systematically via the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.

3. Journal Management

Khatulistiwa: Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan is actively managed by the Tarbiyah Faculty Journal Editors Forum and an independent editorial board led by Editor-in-Chief Abdul Azizul Hakim. The editorial team comprises qualified scholars and disciplinary experts across pedagogy, curriculum development, Islamic education, educational technology, and educational psychology. The editorial management is responsible for:

  • Overseeing initial manuscript screening, similarity checks (Turnitin), and desk rejections.

  • Coordinating an objective, double-blind peer-review process involving qualified independent expert reviewers per manuscript.

  • Enforcing publication ethics, retraction guidelines, and anti-misconduct protocols aligned with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

  • Supervising the biannual production pipeline to ensure that accepted articles are finalized, formatted, and published on the final calendar day of April and August.

4. Editorial Independence

Khatulistiwa firmly adheres to the principle of complete editorial independence. While the legal entity (Institut Elkatarie) and its publishing unit (LPPM Institut Elkatarie) provide financial, technical, and institutional hosting, they do not interfere with editorial decision-making. Decisions to accept, revise, or reject a submitted manuscript rest entirely on the academic merit, empirical validity, methodological rigor, and relevance of the work, guided by peer-reviewer evaluations and editorial board consensus. Publication decisions remain strictly insulated from commercial, political, personal, or institutional pressures.

5. Transparency and Accountability

Khatulistiwa: Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan maintains absolute transparency regarding its organizational ownership, publishing entity, operational management, peer-review model, and ethical standards. All regulatory guidelines, author requirements, copyright policies, and archiving practices are made publicly available on the journal's official portal. Any governance updates, editorial appointments, or structural changes within LPPM Institut Elkatarie or the Tarbiyah Faculty Journal Editors Forum are promptly updated on the masthead to maintain institutional transparency and accountability before national accreditation bodies (such as ARJUNA/SINTA) and international indexers.

6. Contact Information

For inquiries concerning journal administration, institutional partnership, indexing verification, manuscript processing, or editorial governance, stakeholders may contact the editorial secretariat through the following channels:

  • Editor-in-Chief: Abdul Azizul Hakim

  • Publisher / Managing Body: LPPM Institut Elkatarie

  • Legal Institution: Institut Elkatarie

  • Editorial Office Email: khatulistiwa@elkatarie.ac.id

  • Official Journal System: Open Journal Systems (OJS)

  • Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.69901

7. Final Statement

Khatulistiwa: Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan is owned by Institut Elkatarie, published by LPPM Institut Elkatarie, and operated under the professional governance of the Tarbiyah Faculty Journal Editors Forum. Driven by rigorous peer-review practices, strict adherence to COPE publication ethics, transparent organizational management, and complete editorial independence, the journal remains dedicated to disseminating trustworthy, high-impact scholarly research across the educational sciences.